Optical Microscope

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Crevice Corrosion in a Subsea System — Aspect Before Analysis

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Aged microstructure of the HP stainless steel, modified with 1%Nb, cast fitting, tubular, operating for 6 years in a furnace which design temperature is 1100°C. The material presented a network of primary carbides, white and grey, and an austenitic matrix with coalescing secondary precipitation. Some voids. The Vickers identation indicates a hardness value about 260HV 100g in the aged austenitic matrix.
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ML00173 / May.2021
Welding Cracks in an Aged HP Cast Fitting
M - Heat Resistant SteelP - Cast FtittingAp - PetrochemicalCd - Welding
Cm - Kalling Etched Micrography by OMDf - Microhardness identations
Micrography of a longitudinal section of the socket at the position where the fracture occurred. Uniform tempered martensitic structure. The hardness of this microstructure is 639 HV1Kg.
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ML00161 / Mar.2020
Brittle Fracture of a High Strength Socket
M - Medium Carbon Tool SteelP - ToolAp - Oil and GasCd - Brittle Fracture
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Martensite
Tempered martensite of the pipe body of this API 5D grade S135 drill pipe. The material presents, at this low magnification micrographic aspect, a slightly banded structure, usual for this type of drill pipe.
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ML00159 / Mar.2020
Collapse of a Drill Pipe
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Drill PipeAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Ductile Behavior
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Banded Structure

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ML00173 — Welding Cracks in an Aged HP Cast FittingM - Heat Resistant SteelP - Cast FtittingAp - PetrochemicalCd - Welding
Cast fitting microstructure. Network of primary carbides and austenitic matrix with coalescing secondary precipitation.
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ML00173 / May.2021
Welding Cracks in an Aged HP Cast Fitting
M - Heat Resistant SteelP - Cast FtittingAp - PetrochemicalCd - Welding
Cm - Kalling Etched Micrography by OMDf - Base Metal
Cast fitting microstructure. The material presented a network of primary carbided and an austenitic matrix with coalescing secondary precipitation.
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ML00173 / May.2021
Welding Cracks in an Aged HP Cast Fitting
M - Heat Resistant SteelP - Cast FtittingAp - PetrochemicalCd - Welding
Cm - Kalling Etched Micrography by OMDf - Aged Microstructure
Micrographic detail of the network of primary carbided, white and grey, and an austenitic matrix with coalescing secondary precipitation.
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ML00173 / May.2021
Welding Cracks in an Aged HP Cast Fitting
M - Heat Resistant SteelP - Cast FtittingAp - PetrochemicalCd - Welding
Cm - Kalling Etched Micrography by OMDf - Aged Microstructure
Fusion line between the aged base metal (in the top) and the weld metal (in the bottom). The adopted filler metal is similar to the base metal.
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ML00173 / May.2021
Welding Cracks in an Aged HP Cast Fitting
M - Heat Resistant SteelP - Cast FtittingAp - PetrochemicalCd - Welding
Cm - Kalling Etched Micrography by OMDf - Fusion Line
Fusion line between the aged base metal (in the top) and the weld metal (in the bottom). There is a region where the primary carbides melted (partially melted zone), that appears dark, and a region of high dilution cloe to the fusion line.
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ML00173 / May.2021
Welding Cracks in an Aged HP Cast Fitting
M - Heat Resistant SteelP - Cast FtittingAp - PetrochemicalCd - Welding
Cm - Kalling Etched Micrography by OMDf - Fusion Line

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ML00161 — Brittle Fracture of a High Strength SocketM - Medium Carbon Tool SteelP - ToolAp - Oil and GasCd - Brittle Fracture
Micrography of a longitudinal section presenting an uniform tempered martensitic structure.
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ML00161 / Mar.2020
Brittle Fracture of a High Strength Socket
M - Medium Carbon Tool SteelP - ToolAp - Oil and GasCd - Brittle Fracture
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Martensite
Micrographic detail of the tempered martensitic structure.
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ML00161 / Mar.2020
Brittle Fracture of a High Strength Socket
M - Medium Carbon Tool SteelP - ToolAp - Oil and GasCd - Brittle Fracture
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Martensite
Micrography, as polished, of the socket in a section transverse to the fracture, showing the fracture in the top and secondary brittle cracks.
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ML00161 / Mar.2020
Brittle Fracture of a High Strength Socket
M - Medium Carbon Tool SteelP - ToolAp - Oil and GasCd - Brittle Fracture
Cm - As polished micrographyDf - Secondary Cracks
Micrographic details of cracks with brittle aspect (straight and multiple cracks).
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ML00161 / Mar.2020
Brittle Fracture of a High Strength Socket
M - Medium Carbon Tool SteelP - ToolAp - Oil and GasCd - Brittle Fracture
Cm - As polished micrographyDf - Cracks
Micrography of the socket in a section transverse to the fracture, showing the fracture in the top and some secondary brittle cracks.
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ML00161 / Mar.2020
Brittle Fracture of a High Strength Socket
M - Medium Carbon Tool SteelP - ToolAp - Oil and GasCd - Brittle Fracture
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Secondary Cracks

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ML00159 — Collapse of a Drill PipeM - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Drill PipeAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Ductile Behavior
Micrographic detail of the tempered martensite in the longitudinal section of the pipe body. Uniform structure.
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ML00159 / Mar.2020
Collapse of a Drill Pipe
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Drill PipeAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Ductile Behavior
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Martensite
Micrographic detail of the tempered martensite in the longitudinal section of the pipe body.
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ML00159 / Mar.2020
Collapse of a Drill Pipe
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Drill PipeAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Ductile Behavior
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Martensite
Micrography of the longitudinal section of the pipe, at the thicker part of the fracture, showing several secondary cracks opened to the external side of the pipe. There are no problems in the material structure and the cracks are associated to large plastic deformation.
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ML00159 / Mar.2020
Collapse of a Drill Pipe
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Drill PipeAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Ductile Behavior
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Ductile Crack
Micrographic detail of the secondary cracks opened to the external side of the pipe. The cracks are associated to large plastic deformation.
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ML00159 / Mar.2020
Collapse of a Drill Pipe
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Drill PipeAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Ductile Behavior
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Ductile Crack
Micrographic detail of the ductile secondary cracks in the pipe body, close to the fracture. The strong plastic deformation is associated to the compression stresses generated by the buckling.
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ML00159 / Mar.2020
Collapse of a Drill Pipe
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Drill PipeAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Ductile Behavior
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Plastic Deformation

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