Stress corrosion carcking (SCC) susceptibility of various austenitic stainless steel pipe welds has been studied by means of constant load tensile tests and pipe tests in 288°C water containing 26ppm dissolved oxygen. The results obtained are summarized as follows: (1) SCC susceptibility of SUS 304 pipe welds is comparatively low under the condition of as-welded. It becomes, however, high remarkably by grinder operation and/or low temperature sensitization heat treatment. The distribution of time to failure on SUS 304 pipe welds can be expressed as a log-normal or Weibull distribution. (2) SUS 304L, 304NG, 316NG, and 347 stainless steel pipe welds have a good SCC resistance and sensitization resistance. Furthermore, the life estimation on alternate pipe welds was conducted statistically.
