Service experience has shown that the commercial grades of austenitic stainless steel may be subject to stress-corrosion cracking when exposed simultaneously to tensile stress and certain corrosive environments, especially chloride solutions at high temperatures. Stress-corrosion cracking can result in premature failure of austenitic stainless-steel components and severely limit the usefulness of these steels in the chemical, nuclear, power, and food-processing industries. Treatments to relieve residual stresses in stainless-steel components, treatments to control the environment, and/or cathodic protection treatments may be used to prevent stress-corrosion cracking. Such treatments, however, are expensive and not always reliable. Thus, a need exists for an austenitic stainless steel with inherent resistance to stress-corrosion cracking.

Subject
Materials, Molybdenum, Stainless alloys, Stress cracking, Phosphorus, Silicon, Mechanical failure, Nitrogen, Steel, Carbon, Stainless steel, Nickel, Stress corrosion cracking
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1968
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