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Effect of Additives on the Stress Corrosion Cracking Behavior of Alloy 600 in High Temperature Caustic Solutions  

Hur, Do Haeng (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Kim, Joung Soo (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Baek, Jae Sun (Dept. of Advanced Materials. Sungkyunkwan University)
Kim, Jung Gu (Dept. of Advanced Materials. Sungkyunkwan University)
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Corrosion Science and Technology / v.3, no.1, 2004 , pp. 6-13 More about this Journal
Abstract
The effect of inhibitors on the electrochemical behavior and the stress corrosion cracking resistance of Alloy 600(UNS N06600) was evaluated in 10% sodium hydroxide solution at $315^{\circ}C$. The specimens of a C-ring type for stress corrosion cracking test were polarized at 150 mV above the corrosion potential for 120 hours with and without inhibitors such as titanium oxide, titanium boride and cerium boride. The chemical compositions of the films formed on the crack tip in the C-ring specimens were analyzed using a scanning Auger electron spectroscopy. The cerium boride, the most effective, was observed to decrease the crack propagation rate more than a factor of three compared with that obtained in no inhibitor solution. It was found that the changes of the active-passive transition potentials and the film compositions were related to the resistance to stress corrosion cracking in high temperature caustic solution.
Keywords
allov 600; caustic; stress corrosion cracking; inhibitor; cerium boride; titanium compounds; crack tip;
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