This book describes the scientific, technical and practical aspects of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) occurring on pipelines. It summarizes the phenomena, mechanisms and management of pipeline SCC from in-service experiences and laboratory experiments to the range of modeling prediction for SCC initiation and propagation, and the remaining uncertainties that affect the understanding of pipeline SCC. For completeness, the book also includes fundamentals of SCC as well as the authors recent research results on pipeline SCC. This book addresses for the first time the one of the problems affecting operation and safety of oil/gas pipelines stress corrosion cracking. The book includes the authors most recent research on SCC of high-strength pipeline steel, i.e., X80 and X100 steels, which have been proposed or used in new pipeline projects in sub-Arctic and Arctic regions. Finally, the book is devoted to the mechanistic understanding of various observations associated with pipeline SCC, and therefore focuses heavily on research in this area.
