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The chapter provides an overview of the results of studying the effect of hydrogen in mixtures with gases on strength, ductility, fatigue crack growth rate, and fracture morphology of the most commonly used pipeline steels X70, X80. The main methods of testing susceptibility of pipeline steels to hydrogen following the standards are briefly discussed. The results obtained by various authors show that there is a strong influence of partial hydrogen in mixtures with gases. Fatigue crack growth rate increases many times, the fracture morphology changes, and a quasi-cleavage fracture mode is observed. At the same time, tensile strength and yield strength of smooth tensile specimens made of the base metal practically do not change. This, in turn, can lead to an incorrect interpretation of the results of testing.
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Polyanskiy, V.A., Frolova, K.P., Sedova, Y.S., Yakovlev, Y.A., Belyaev, A.K. (2022). Behavior of Pipeline Steels in Gaseous Hydrogen-Containing Mixtures. In: Polyanskiy, V.A., K. Belyaev, A. (eds) Mechanics and Control of Solids and Structures. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 164. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93076-9_25
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