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Fracture Failure Analysis of a Top Drive Side Cover Joint

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A top drive side cover joint is fractured after service for 5 h. In this paper, the failure causes were investigated by mechanical property tests, chemical composition analysis, metallographic analysis, and scanning electron microscopy analysis. The results showed that the failure mode of the top drive side cover joint was a brittle fracture. In addition, the failure cause is mainly attributed to the banded metallographic structure of martensite and bainite. This would result in a low Charpy-V impact toughness and high ductile-brittle transition temperature of the material. The low service temperature and complex load conditions during the drilling process would make the fracture failure easier to happen.

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This work was supported by Scientific Research and Technology Development Project of CNPC (Grant No. 2020B-4020)

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Performance and Structure Safety of Petroleum Tubular Goods and Equipment Materials, CNPC Tubular Goods Research Institute, Xi’an, China

    Nan Ji, Chun Feng, Peng Wang & Lijuan Zhu

  2. China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China

    Nan Ji

  3. Tarim oilfield Company, PetroChina Company Limited, Korla, China

    Bao Zhang & Zhenjiang Wu

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Ji, N., Zhang, B., Wu, Z. et al. Fracture Failure Analysis of a Top Drive Side Cover Joint. J Fail. Anal. and Preven. 23, 2452–2460 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11668-023-01785-7

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