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A systematic evaluation of the sulfide-stress cracking (SSC) behavior of five steels with nickel contents ranging from 0 to 3 pct was conducted in an acidified chloride solution saturated with H2S at room temperature (NACE solution). All of the steels were low-alloy, structural, or pressure vessel steels that are heat treatable to high strength levels with high toughness. All of the steels were heat treated to yield strength of approximately 690 MPa (100 ksi) and evaluated by identical test methods. The relative cracking susceptibility of the steels was determined from threshold stresses in constant-load tension tests and threshold stress intensities shown by precracked double-cantilever-beam specimens. Tempering treatment was a decisive factor in SSC susceptibility of low-nickel steels. When double tempered, low-Ni steels with greater than 1 pct Ni can be equivalent in SSC resistance to nominally nickel-free 4130 steel.
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Payer, J.H., Pednekar, S.P. & Boyd, W.K. Sulfide stress cracking susceptibility of nickel containing steels. Metall Trans A 17, 1601–1610 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02650097
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