This paper presents a new accelerated stress corrosion cracking (SCC) test method that simulates changes in actual environmental conditions to evaluate the service life of structural materials. The time-to-failure of type 304 (UNS(1) S30400) stainless steel, as tested by the new SCC test apparatus, is analyzed in terms of statistical probability and new indexes of SCC are described.

Subject
Test methods, Materials, Tubes, Sodium chloride, Test apparatus, Heat exchangers, Incubation period, Salt concentration, Environments, Stainless steel, Chlorides, Stress corrosion cracking, Chloride stress corrosion cracking
Keywords:
chloride, life estimation, stainless steel, stress corrosion cracking, Weibull distribution
National Association of Corrosion Engineers
1990
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