by MMT | Mar 20, 2025 | News and Events, Publications
Abstract: The toughness of pipeline materials, particularly in fracture toughness, is important for assessing the fitness-for-service of pipelines. With the advent of ultra-high resolution inline inspection (ILI) tools, the demand for fracture toughness data has...
by MMT | Mar 20, 2025 | News and Events, Publications
Abstract: Several operators have increased the number of pipe cutouts and associated laboratory toughness testing for vintage assets to fill gaps in material records the original testing certificates did not include fracture toughness, a properties that the legacy...
by MMT | Mar 20, 2025 | News and Events, Publications
Abstract: Pipe toughness determination as part of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) has been sought for decades. Material toughness is needed when analyzing the critical crack size that would fail at MAOP and when performing a fitness-for-service evaluation with cracks...
by MMT | May 15, 2024 | News and Events, Publications
Abstract: Hydrogen blending into natural gas pipelines has been proposed as a possible solution for delivering low-carbon energy to the urban market while leveraging the existing infrastructure. One of the concerns is that hydrogen may lower the fracture toughness of...
by MMT | Mar 19, 2024 | News and Events, Publications
Download the Presentation for REX 2024, PRCI Research Exchange: In-Situ Measurement of Fracture Toughness using the Planing-Induced Microfracture Method_REX 2024 Validation of Planing-Induced Microfracture for Determining Pipe Body Toughness Simon Bellemare,...
by MMT | Mar 19, 2024 | News and Events, Publications
Download the Presentation: PPIM 2024_#308_Validation of Planing-Induced Microfracture for Determining Pipe Body Toughness Validation of Planing-Induced Microfracture for Determining Pipe Body Toughness Xuejun (Tony) Huang, Massachusetts Materials Technologies...
