Jacquet-lucas award: effect of homogenization heat treatment on critical pitting temperature and sigma phase formation in super duplex stainless steel.

Advanced Materials & Processes,  February, 2004  by Noecker, Rick

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The market for long coils of super duplex stainless steel (SDSS) tubing in the oil and gas industry is approximately $100 million annually. It is often selected for service in chloride-containing corrosive environments because of its excellent resistance to pitting and stress-corrosion cracking, and its superb mechanical properties.

Currently, most such tubing is manufactured by processes that result in short lengths of seamless tubing that often require thousands of orbital welds to produce long coils on the order of thousands of feet in length. On the other hand, longer tubing ...

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