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Welding HSLA line pipe steels

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This paper has reviewed the various aspects of weldability as it is influenced by the base metal composition and processing in HSLA line pipe steels. The Mo-Nb steels meet these stringent weldability requirements. Consumables have been developed for both girth and seam welding the Mo-Nb steels, and the strength and toughness required for severe service can be obtained with consumables of reasonable cost and good operating characteristics.

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    J. M. Sawhill Jr. (Sr. Research Metallurgist)

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Plenum Publishing Corporation is indebted to Climax Molybdenum Company, a division of A MAX Incorporated, 1 Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, Connecticut 06830, for providing the original English version of this article.

Published in Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 7, pp. 56–60, July, 1977.

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Sawhill, J.M. Welding HSLA line pipe steels. Met Sci Heat Treat 19, 597–609 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00673550

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