Microstructure

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Crevice Corrosion in a Subsea System — Aspect Before Analysis

Application: O&G Well Drilling Standard: AISI Capture method: Optical Microscope clear all

Microstructure — sub-branches

Bainite 2Banded Structure 4Ferrite and Pearlite 3Fusion Line 2Martensite 8Uniform Structure 1

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Low magnification micrography of a longitudinal section of the valve body, in the center of the thickness. As expected for this high strength steel, the microstructure is martensitic, but with segregation bands.
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ML00162 / Apr.2020
Valve Body Crack Growth from Weld Defects
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Valve BodyAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Fatigue Induced by a Defect
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Banded Structure
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
Micrography of the pin close to the interface with the spray and fuse layer. Transverse section. The fuse was conducted in high temperature and the pin was cooled very slowly, forming a ferritic-perlitic structure even for this high hardenability base metal.
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ML00110 / Jan.2018
Non Conformance in Spray and Fuse Pin
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Heat Treatment Defect
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Ferrite and Pearlite
Micrography of the pin close to the interface with the spray and fuse layer. Transverse section. The fuse is conducted in high temperature and the pin was quenched and tempered after the thermal spray deposition and fuse by flame (in this case the melting of the applied layer was conducted by a oxifuel flame.
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ML00109 / Jan.2018
Thermal Spray and Fuse Layer in Forged Pin
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Thermal spray
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Martensite
Micrographic aspect of the martensitic structure at the longitudinal section.
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ML00082 / Dec.2017
Corrosion Fatigue of a Drilling Tool
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Corrosion Fatigue
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Martensite
Micrography of a longitudinal section of the housing presenting a uniform tempered martensitic structure. The material presented a thickness about 2.5 mm in the region where the cracking started.
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ML00093 / Sep.2017
MIC of a Drilling Tool
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Heat Treated PartAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Brittle Behavior
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Uniform Structure

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ML00162 — Valve Body Crack Growth from Weld DefectsM - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Valve BodyAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Fatigue Induced by a Defect
Micrography of a longitudinal section of the valve body presenting a martensitic microstructure. The structure is banded and the darker regions show inclusions (grey sulfides).
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ML00162 / Apr.2020
Valve Body Crack Growth from Weld Defects
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Valve BodyAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Fatigue Induced by a Defect
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Martensite
Micrographic detail of the martensitic microstructure, in the longitudinal section. The hardness of the valve body is 34 HRc (Rockwell C) all through the thickness.
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ML00162 / Apr.2020
Valve Body Crack Growth from Weld Defects
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Valve BodyAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Fatigue Induced by a Defect
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Martensite
Micrography of the weld repair at the fusion line. Weld metal to the right and heat affected zone to the left.
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ML00162 / Apr.2020
Valve Body Crack Growth from Weld Defects
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Valve BodyAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Fatigue Induced by a Defect
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Fusion Line
Micrographic detail of the fusion line.
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ML00162 / Apr.2020
Valve Body Crack Growth from Weld Defects
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Valve BodyAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Fatigue Induced by a Defect
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Fusion Line
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
Micrographic detail of sheared pipe, showing strong plastic deformation at the fracture. The structure shows the shear effect at the fracture.
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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
ML00110 — Non Conformance in Spray and Fuse PinM - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Heat Treatment Defect
Micrography of the ferritic-pearlitic structure in the center of the thickness of the tubular forging pin. Transverse section. The fuse is conducted in high temperature and the pin was not heat treated after the thermal spray deposition and fuse.
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ML00110 / Jan.2018
Non Conformance in Spray and Fuse Pin
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Heat Treatment Defect
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Ferrite and Pearlite
Micrographic detail of the ferritic-pearlitic structure in the center of the thickness of the tubular forging pin. Transverse section. The fuse is conducted in high temperature and the pin was not heat treated after the thermal spray deposition and fuse.
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ML00110 / Jan.2018
Non Conformance in Spray and Fuse Pin
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Heat Treatment Defect
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Ferrite and Pearlite
ML00109 — Thermal Spray and Fuse Layer in Forged PinM - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Thermal spray
Micrographic detail of the tempered martensite structure close to the interface with the spray and fuse layer. Transverse section. The fuse is conducted in high temperature and the pin was heat treated after the thermal spray deposition and fuse.
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ML00109 / Jan.2018
Thermal Spray and Fuse Layer in Forged Pin
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Thermal spray
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Martensite
Micrography of the bainitic structure in the center of the thickness of the tubular forging pin. Transverse section. The fuse is conducted in high temperature and the pin was heat treated after the thermal spray deposition and fuse.
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ML00109 / Jan.2018
Thermal Spray and Fuse Layer in Forged Pin
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Thermal spray
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Bainite
Micrographic detail of the bainitic structure in the center of the thickness of the tubular forging pin. Transverse section. The fuse is conducted in high temperature and the pin was heat treated after the thermal spray deposition and fuse.
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ML00109 / Jan.2018
Thermal Spray and Fuse Layer in Forged Pin
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Thermal spray
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Bainite
ML00082 — Corrosion Fatigue of a Drilling ToolM - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Corrosion Fatigue
Micrography of the quenched and tempered structure. Longitudinal section.
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ML00082 / Dec.2017
Corrosion Fatigue of a Drilling Tool
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Corrosion Fatigue
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Banded Structure
Micrography of the quenched and tempered structure. Longitudinal section. Sligthly banded.
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ML00082 / Dec.2017
Corrosion Fatigue of a Drilling Tool
M - Low Alloy Medium Carbon QTP - Tubular ForgingAp - O&G Well DrillingCd - Corrosion Fatigue
Cm - Nital Etched Micrography by OMDf - Banded Structure