Research Article

Mechanical Properties of High-Nb X80 Steel Weld Pipes for the Second West-to-East Gas Transmission Pipeline Project

Table 2

The correlation of mechanical properties of weld joints with Ceq and Pcm.

MethodRelationshipcorrelation

Tensile strength (TS) of
weld joint
TS = 536(±10) + 386(±24)Ceq0.96
TS = 568(±9) + 776(±48)Pcm0.98

Impact energy (IE) of HAZIT = 731(±44) − 1094(±101)Ceq0.91
IE = 624(±42) − 2099(±237)Pcm0.94

Impact energy (IE) of
weld metal
IE = 133(±19) + 101(±43)Ceq0.44
IE = 112(±15) − 356(±84)Pcm0.81