Stress corrosion cracking of pipeline steels in near-neutral pH solutions: the role of mechanochemical and chemomechanical effects

Roman I. Bogdanov, Yaakov B. Unigovski, Emmanuel M. Gutman, Iliya V. Ryakhovskikh, Roni Z. Shneck

1 Institute of Natural Gases and Gas Technologies-Gazprom VNIIGAZ LLC, Moscow Oblast, Razvilka Settlement, Russia
2 Dept. of Materials Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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Special Issues: Corrosion

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