Pipeline Steels for Sour Service (Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering)

This book summarizes the results of experimental work on the development of technologies for the manufacture of sour service line pipe steels. It presents the latest theories on the mechanisms of cracking and factors affecting fracture resistance in H2S-containing media of low-alloy pipe steels. The authors propose methods for improving the quality of continuously cast slabs and show the effect of the chemical composition on the microstructure and properties of rolled plates for pipes. Considerable attention is paid to the metallurgical aspects of microstructure formation and its mechanical properties, as well as the enhancement and cracking resistance of sour service sheets under thermomechanical rolling with accelerated cooling. In brief, the book presents a cutting-edge overview of sour service sheet and pipe production.

Dr. Ivan Shabalov is the Chairman of the Coordination Council of the Association of Pipe Manufacturers, Moscow, Russia. 

Dr. Yury Matrosov is a Full Professor and Principal Researcher at the Center for Pipe & Weld Structure Steels, I.P. Bardin Central Research Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy, Moscow, Russia. 

Dr. Alexey Kholodnyi is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Pipe & Weld Structure Steels, I.P. Bardin Central Research Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy, Moscow, Russia. 

Dr. Maxim Matrosov is the Director of the Center for Pipe & Weld Structure Steels, I.P. Bardin Central Research Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy, Moscow, Russia. 

Dr. Valery Velikodnev is the Technical Director of the Center for Examination of Pipeline Systems and Engineering in Moscow, Russia.