ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Chemical Processing Equipment
The Failure of Titanium Clad Tube Sheet in Heat Exchanger by Fatigue Cracking and Corrosion
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Published:2019
Abstract
Corrosion failure occurred in a titanium clad tubesheet because of a corrosive tube-side gas-liquid mixture leaking through fatigue cracks in the seal welds at tube-to-tubesheet joints. The tubesheet was a carbon steel plate clad with titanium on the tube side face. The seal weld cracks were initiated by cyclic stress imposed by exchanger tubes. The gas-liquid mixture passed through cracks under tube-side pressure, resulting in severe corrosion of the steel backing plate. The failure started with the loosening of the expanded tube-to-tubesheet joints. Loose joints allowed the exchanger tubes to impose load on seal welds and the shell side...
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Member Sign InC. H. Hsu, The Failure of Titanium Clad Tube Sheet in Heat Exchanger by Fatigue Cracking and Corrosion, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Chemical Processing Equipment, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.chem.c9001570
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