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Elastic Limit: The maximum
stress to which a material may be subjected without retention of any permanent
deformation after the stress is removed.
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Electric Potential: A
voltage existing between the pipe and its environment.
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Electric Resistance Weld (ERW):
Weld formed by resistance heating of the two edges of a pipe and then forcing
them together to create a solid-state weld.
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Electrical resistance probe (ER):
Corrosion monitoring technique which provides a measurement of the change
in cross sectional area of an electrically conducting material probe through
a test of its resistance.
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Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
(EIS): Corrosion monitoring technique, primarily only used in laboratories,
which is an extension of LPR. It uses a full spectral range of applied potential
sine waves from 100 kHz down to 1 mHz.
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Electrochemical noise (EN):
A passive corrosion monitoring technique which monitors the naturally occurring
fluctuations of the current and potential over the surface of a corroding interface.
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Equivalent weight (EW):
The quantity [g] of metal consumed by the passage of one Faraday of electric
charge.
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Erosion: Destruction or
removal of material by abrasive action of moving fluids (or gases) usually accelerated
by the presence of solid particles or matter in suspension.
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Erosion
corrosion: Corrosion due to the accelerated material degradation
under the influence of relative motion between a corroding surface and a corrosive
environment.
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Estimated Repair Factor (ERF):
The ratio of the pipeline design pressure to the 'safe maximum pressure'
as determined by an analysis criterion (e.g. ASME B 31G, RSTRENG, …).
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Evaluation: A review,
following the identification of an anomaly, to determine whether the anomaly
meets specified acceptance criteria.
