Abstract
A metallurgical evaluation was performed to investigate the failure of a type 304 stainless steel tube from a boiler stack economizer. The tube had three distinct degradation mechanisms: pitting corrosion, chloride stress corrosion cracking, and fatigue fracture. The primary failure mechanism for the tube was fatigue fracture, but the other mechanisms may have eventually caused a tube failure in the absence of fatigue. This paper details the visual, SEM/EDS, and metallographic examinations used to determine that these failure mechanisms were each present in the same tube.
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