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2003 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Stress Corrosion Cracking
Author : Prof. em. Dr. rer. nat. Helmut Kaesche
Published in: Corrosion of Metals
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) is defined as crack nucleation and propagation in metals caused by the synergystic action of tensile stresses, either constant or slowly changing with time, together with crack-tip chemical reactions or other environment-induced crack-tip effects. In principle, dry hydrogen-induced cracking also is SCC, but we shall, in this chapter, assume that the environmental effect is electrolytic crack tip corrosion.