Characterization of Environmentally Assisted Cracking for Design: State of the Art.

Abstract

High-strength structural alloys and weldments, such as those used in ship construction, can be exposed to deleterious environments under load and can experience environmentally assisted cracking (including stress-corrosion cracking and corrosion fatigue) during service. Designers cannot now anticipate with confidence a material's susceptibility to environmentally assisted cracking or determine how to characterize and incorporate such information in the design process (i.e., to quantitatively assess durability and reliability). (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA112061

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Corrosion
  • Engineers
  • Ferrium
  • Hydrogen Embrittlement
  • Materials
  • Materials Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Mechanical Working
  • Mechanics
  • Stress Corrosion Cracking
  • Stress Tests
  • Test Methods
  • Waveforms
  • Yield Strength

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  • Metallurgy
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.
  • Systems Analysis and Design