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Fatigue of high strength steels in sea water

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1988
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Fatigue response of selected high strength steels in seawater was investigated under conditions relevant to tension leg platform tendon applications. This involved both freely corroding and cathodically protected, displacement controlled experiments upon constant taper, bending specimens which were either notched or welded, ground and post weld heat treated. High stress range freely corroding results indicated enhanced life compared to structural steel, whereas at low stress range the opposite was true. Corrections made to the high strength steel and structural steel data to correspond to similar test conditions revealed no benefit of enhanced material strength on corrosion fatigue life. Fatigue life for all cathodically protected specimens exceeded that for the freely corroding ones, and with one exception testing was terminated prior to failure. The single cathodically protected specimen failure involved a stress range approximately one-third the value for other specimens which were run-outs. This suggests that an environmental cracking process may operate precipitously at relatively low stress amplitudes (alternately, high R values). Fatigue life for freely corroding notched specimens was less than for grounded PWHT specimens, the difference increasing with decreasing amplitude.
Title: Fatigue of high strength steels in sea water.
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Name(s): Sablok, Anil Kumar.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Hartt, William H., Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1988
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 64 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Fatigue response of selected high strength steels in seawater was investigated under conditions relevant to tension leg platform tendon applications. This involved both freely corroding and cathodically protected, displacement controlled experiments upon constant taper, bending specimens which were either notched or welded, ground and post weld heat treated. High stress range freely corroding results indicated enhanced life compared to structural steel, whereas at low stress range the opposite was true. Corrections made to the high strength steel and structural steel data to correspond to similar test conditions revealed no benefit of enhanced material strength on corrosion fatigue life. Fatigue life for all cathodically protected specimens exceeded that for the freely corroding ones, and with one exception testing was terminated prior to failure. The single cathodically protected specimen failure involved a stress range approximately one-third the value for other specimens which were run-outs. This suggests that an environmental cracking process may operate precipitously at relatively low stress amplitudes (alternately, high R values). Fatigue life for freely corroding notched specimens was less than for grounded PWHT specimens, the difference increasing with decreasing amplitude.
Identifier: 14463 (digitool), FADT14463 (IID), fau:11262 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1988.
Subject(s): Steel--Fatigue
Steel, High strength
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