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25
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Mining & Mineral Processing","Material Science
Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) data for AISI type 316 stainless steel
in solution-annealed and sensitized (at 923 K for 20 h) conditions ar
e presented in this paper. The tests were conducted in an environment
of boiling 5 M NaCl + 0.15 M Na2SO4 + 2.5 ml/l HCl using a fracture me
chanics approach. Stress parameters, K-I and J(I), were calculated alo
ng with the crack growth rates (da/dt). The tests were conducted under
both increasing stress intensity and decreasing stress intensity cond
itions. The sensitized stainless steel was found to have lower values
of K-ISCC and J(ISCC) and higher plateau crack growth rates than the s
olution-annealed material. The value of K-I for the transition of the
cracking mode from transgranular to intergranular in the sensitized st
ainless steel corresponded to the value of K-I above which the plateau
region started. In both conditions of the material, the initiation of
stress corrosion cracking and the initial crack propagation were tran
sgranular. The sensitized material exhibited a transition to an interg
ranular cracking mode while the solution-annealed material did not. A
large number of secondary cracks were observed in the solution-anneale
d material.