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STRESS CORROSION CRACKING OF ASTM A508 Cl 2 STEEL IN OXYGENATED WATER AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES.

  • H. Choi*
  • , F. H. Beck
  • , Z. Szklarska-Simalowska
  • , D. D. Macdonald
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The steel undergoes stress corrosion cracking in pure water containing 1 or 8 ppm of oxygen at temperatures ranging from 100 to 288 C. At temperatures of 100 and 150 C, cracks nucleate at corrosion pits. At higher temperatures, cracks nucleate beneath hematite crystals which grow via a dissolution-preciptation mechanism upon a base oxide film at sites of high anodic dissolution activity. Susceptibility increases with increasing oxygen concentration, but passes through a maximum as a function of temperature at 250 C.

Original languageEnglish
Pages136-144
Number of pages9
Volume38
No3
Specialist publicationCorrosion
DOIs
StatePublished - 1982

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • General Chemical Engineering
  • General Materials Science

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