PREVENTIVE MEASURES FOR PIPELINE STRESS-CORROSION CRACKING DESCRIBED.

Failure of pipelines due to stress-corrosion cracking has been a major concern to pipeline operators. In research sponsored by the Pipeline Research Committee of the American Pipeline Association (Project NG-18), significant progress has been made toward developing preventive measures for external stress-corrosion cracking of pipelines. This article summarizes the status of present research into solving the problem of stress-corrosion cracking in pipelines.