In the selection of suitable candidate materials for sea water or brackish water conversion installations, serious consideration must be given to their overall corrosion properties to ensure long-term structural stability. One aspect of corrosion behavior which is often totally unpredictable is failure of a specimen or component subjected to a tensile stress in a corrosive environment. A great deal is known about the stress corrosion cracking susceptibility of a given material in a specific environment. However, to this author’s knowledge, no systematic investigations have been undertaken to study such behavior at elevated temperatures in flowing solutions which have a high salt concentration, i.e., conditions which would be typical of those encountered in desalinization operations.

Subject
Test methods, Water, Materials, Yield stress, Salts, Corrosion rate, Stress, C ring stress corrosion testing, Tubing, Brines, Copper nickel alloys, Pitting, Stress corrosion cracking
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1969
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