Environmental cracking is the topic of considerable research and progress has been made toward mechanistic understanding. Yet, failures as a result of environmental cracking continue to occur with most engineering alloy systems in a variety of applications. This paper addresses the gaps between mechanistic understanding and the design and operational practices. The role of the mechanician, designer and operator in reducing the number of catastrophic failures due to environmental cracking are discussed.

Subject
Environmental cracking, Test methods, Corrosion failures, Marine environments, Materials, Yield stress, Materials performance, Thermal stress, Engineering, Corrosion data, Electrochemical potential, Stress corrosion cracking, Chloride stress corrosion cracking
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1986
Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP)
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