Fisuración inducida por hidrógeno de aceros soldables microaleadoscaracterización y modelo de comportamiento

Abstract

The environmental conditions of employment of structural steel and energy pipelines and oil facilities have highlighted the need to find a methodology for characterizing their resistance to cracking, both in the elastic and the elastoplastic regime. This work includes experimental and analytical methodologies that are appropriate to be applied to cracking processes studied on specimens and structures, in particular to those associated with the presence of aggressive environments, such as stress � [+]corrosion cracking or hydrogen induced cracking of microalloyed steels. Once applied and validated, the methodology provides results of great interest in the quantitative characterization of the cracking behavior and its correlation with the fracture micromechanisms taking place. This thesis has been shown to be effective in the characterization and establishment of a behavioral model of microalloyed steels used in conditions of hydrogen-induced cracking, such as oil platforms at sea (off-shore structures).