The API 5L X70 steel is used in high-pressure gas transmission pipelines. Because of this, knowledge of presence of residual stress and their magnitude is important to assess the material integrity in service. For the pipeline manufacturing, tubes need to be curved which is often made using the hot induction bending process. This process can introduce different residual stress depending of tube position. For this research, in order to evaluate the residual stress, was used an API 5L X70 tube that was previously curved by hot induction process. Samples were taken from the extrados, intrados, neutral line and straight section of the curved tube. Residual stresses were studied by two conventional methods: X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and Hole-Drilling, which are destructive and non-destructive methods, respectively, in order to assess their qualitative responses. Each of these methods presents particular methodologies in sample preparation and material analysis, but also they differ in factors such time consumption and cost of the analysis. The qualitative responses obtained by the two different methods were comparable and satisfactory and pointed out the existence of a compressive residual stress state in steel pipe.

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the corrosion behavior of 1010 steel processed by Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP), a technique that induces severe plastic deformation (SPD) in materials. The samples were processed by one and two passes of ECAP throught routes A and C. The corrosion behavior was evaluate using the potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, using NaCl (pH= 6.5) and sodium hydroxide/sodium phosphate (pH= 10.5) solutions. The polarization tests showed better performance for the samples processed by ECAP than in the as cast samples both in alkaline and neutral solutions. The results showed that alkaline solution presented higher corrosion rate for the as cast and one ECAP pass materials. It is seen that samples processed throught routes A and C develop a film stabilization on the surface of these samples. In addition, the values of polarization resistance obtained from the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy in NaCl environment were higher for sample processed in route C.

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