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Carbon steels such as API 5L X65 are widely used oil and gas exploration, production and transportation service. However, these steels tend to corrode in the presence of wet CO2 and corrosion is more pronounced in the presence of dissolved salts and acids. Other metals, alloys and polymers also degrade in the presence of high pressure gaseous and supercritical CO2. The corrosion rate of carbon steels in some aqueous environments have been reported to be more than a few millimeters per year.9-10 The situation could be further exacerbated by H2S where cracking can be an issue for high strength steels.
The 6XXX aluminum alloys are magnesium and silicon alloys that are widely used in several applications for their attractive mechanical properties. However, there are some problems associated with the welding of aluminum alloys. Aluminum alloys are difficult to weld due to their high thermal conductivity and high thermal expansion. The weldability of aluminum alloys varies significantly, depending on its chemical composition. In this paper, an experimental investigation studies the effect of heat treatment on mechanical properties of 6063 aluminum alloy for a single pass of Activated Tungsten Inert Gas (ATIG) welding. A thin layer of flux was applied to the welding area. Using ATIG, using the edge preparation, time and power consumption, shielding gas amount and wire quantity can be considerably reduced. Moreover, the number of joints per shift can be increased. No degradation in the microstructure and mechanical properties of the ATIG welds have been observed compared to those produced by conventional TIG welding. The optimal ageing parameters (temperature-time) have been determined to improve the mechanical properties. Taguchi method used to optimize the ageing parameters to improve the mechanical properties.
In the present study, thermal effects on the corrosion behavior and corrosion protection performance of TSA coating were investigated using various electrochemical techniques. Heat treatment at higher temperature induces more cracks in the sealer and aluminum coating. Water and corrosive species (e.g., Cl-) penetrate through the cracks, resulting in corrosion of steel substrate.
About 39 years ago, the first author of this paper has successfully developed the Thermally Treated (TT) Alloy 690, with his colleagues from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. at that time and with people from Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. (the company name at that time, now Nippon Steel Corporation). And they have practically applied TT Alloy 690 to steam generator (SG) tubes. The developed TTAlloy 690 consists of the combinations between the fully solution heat treatment (SHT) condition before TT and carbon content, particularly selected with an optimized microstructure verified by transmission electron microscopy (TEM).
The depletion of easily exploitable oil and gas resources increases the demand for high strength steels able to withstand the high pressures of deeper offshore exploitation. These steels need also to resist a sour environment that enables hydrogen stress cracking. Hydrogen embrittlement is the consequence of a complex mechanism involving adsorption/absorption diffusion and trapping phenomena. Although hydrogen dramatically affects the fracture the mechanisms responsible for generating ductile andbrittle hydrogen-induced fracture surfaces are not well understood. Therefore it is critical to study the impact of mobile and trapped hydrogen on both ductile and brittle fracture of martensitic steels. The present work combines a new design of permeation testing under tensile loading and FEM modelling to investigate the interactions between hydrogen and damage mechanisms focused on plasticity. More precisely the impact of mobile and trapped hydrogen on ductile and brittle fracture of martensitic steels is inspected using a local approach of fracture and a specific analysis of defects evolution under hydrogen flux (vacancies and dislocations). Damage investigation was performed for specimens submitted to several mechanical states (different notch shapes) and hydrogen concentrations (pre-charged and under hydrogen flux). The results showed that the trapped hydrogen favors a ductile fracture while the mobile hydrogen promotes a quasi-cleavage damage at a scale of the martensitic laths. Further analysis revealed that whereas the trapped hydrogen promotes the germination and growth of voids around inclusions and precipitates the mobile hydrogen enhances decohesion along interfaces. The role of plasticity in both fracture mechanisms wasinvestigated. It has been found that plasticity is crucial not only for the ductile fracture but also to the quasi-cleavage process. EBSD images at the quasi-cleavage regions reveal that the majority of the fracture paths occurred on slip planes emphasizing the plasticity contribution to this brittle fracture.
Corrosion inhibitors are used to prevent pipeline corrosion in oil and gas industry. The evaluation of corrosion inhibitors is one of the most important tasks for the corrosion engineers. Corrosion of the metal is suppressed by the inhibitor adsorption on the metal surface. Active ingredients of corrosion inhibitors are, in general, surfactants. A surfactant can adsorb on the internal metal surface of piping and makes a hydrophobic film preventing the contact of water with the metal surface.