ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Power Generating Equipment
A Case of Caustic Cracking at a Tube Expansion
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Published:2019
Abstract
Caustic cracking is the term used to describe one of the forms in which stress-corrosion cracking manifests itself in carbon steels. In the present study, persistent leakage occurred after ten weeks of service from tube expansions in the steam and mud drum of a two-drum D type boiler, which failed to respond to repeated expansion. The leakage was traced to circumferential cracking in the portion of Fe-0.11C-0.46Mn-0.018S-0.011P tubes within the expanded region. Microscopic examination indicated that all cracks started from the outer surface of the tubes in the expanded portion. The form of cracking which was mostly intergranular. Examination...
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