ASTM STP 1401 Environmentally Assisted Cracking: Predictive Methods for Risk Assessment and Evaluation of Materials, Equipment, and Structures
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Held in November of 2000, the Environmentally Assisted Cracking: Predictive Methods for Risk Assessment and Evaluation of Materials, Equipment, and Structures symposium was sponsored by the ASTM Committee G01 on Corrosion of Metals and the G01.06 subcommittee on Environmentally Assisted Cracking in cooperation with NACE International, The Materials Properties Council (MPC), Inc., The Materials Technology Institute of the Chemical Process Industries (CPI), European Structural Integrity Society (ES1S), and The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) sponsored the symposium.
This publication contains papers presented at that symposium. The goal of this international symposium was to address two areas – recent developments in the generation of relevant materials properties data based on laboratory tests and methodologies for evaluation and assessment of environmental assisted cracking (EAC) in equipment and structures exposed to corrosive environments. The focus of the technical program combined both theoretical and applied topics in the same forum. A specific effort was made to make sure that the keynote and plenary program included the foremost scientists in corrosion and material science.
The papers in the symposium included topics related to: uses of electrochemical, surface analysis, slow strain rate, and fracture mechanics techniques; correlation between laboratory and in-service cracking resistance; state-of the art developments in fitness-for-service and risk assessment methodologies; and monitoring of equipment and structure for environmentally assisted cracking.
Specific topics addressed by papers included in this publication include:
- hydrogen embrittlement
- stress corrosion cracking
- titanium alloy
- fracture, mechanics
- crack tip strain rate
- crack propagation
- corrosion based design approach
- damage in power plant coolant circuits
- status of JAERI Material Performance Database (JMPD)
- irradiation-assisted stress corrosion cracking (IASCC)
- BWR
- PWR
- slow strain-rate tensile test
- risk-based inspection
- conditions leading to SCC of gas transmission lines
- correlations between laboratory stress corrosion test data and field performance and data
- chemical process industry (CPI)
- reliability assessment and life-cycle management planning
- hydrogen embrittlement
- linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM)
- rising load/rising displacement tests
- in-situ surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)
- near-threshold fatigue crack growth
- atomic force microscopy (AFM)
- eutectoid steels
- failures of copper alloy valves and fittings
- hydrogen transport
The symposium was developed with the aim of highlighting a broad range of industrial and civil applications including marine, aerospace, chemical, petroleum, electric power, consumer products, and public infrastructure. Additionally, it provided a global forum through which a sharing of state-of-the-art ideas and concepts could be transformed into cost-effective solutions.
The papers in this publication provide information of interest to researchers, scientists, and engineers involved with materials engineering, corrosion science, and many specialists involved in maintaining and monitoring the ongoing reliability of plant equipment, structures, and end-user products.