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NACE Testing


 
HIC

Details

  • Rectangular beam specimen 100 x 20 x t mm
  • Unstressed, tested 4 days
  • NACE Solution A or synthetic sea water,
  • H2S, continuous sparging

Advantages

  • Reveals internal splitting of pipe wall by hydrogen
  • No stressing system required
  • Very fast test (4-day exposure, plus metallography)

Disadvantages

  • Sometimes high lab-to-lab variability occurs

Capacity: Unlimited.