Corrosion fatigue is the most common cause of failure for waterwall tubing in fossil power plants. One of the reasons for this is that the root cause of corrosion fatigue in boiler tubing is not understood. Several theories of corrosion fatigue are reviewed and compared with laboratory data. From this review, insights into the corrosion fatigue process that occurs in power plant boiler tubing are given.

Subject
Corrosion fatigue, Water, Materials, Corrosion rate, Tubes, Corrosion cracking, Fatigue crack growth rate, Tubing, Mechanical failure, Corrosion modeling, Power plants, Boilers, Stress corrosion cracking
Keywords:
Corrosion Fatigue, Mechanisms, Power Plants, Carbon Steel, Low Alloy Steel, Water
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1992
Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP)
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