Practical solutions to environmentally-assisted cracking problems are usually formulated in testing programs which either simulate or accelerate the conditions expected in the affected plant. Fundamental mechanistic knowledge of the cracking process is rarely used in the solution formulation, primarily because this knowledge has been largely qualitative. In this paper an example is given of the practical use that can be made of quantitative mechanistic knowledge in validating the test procedures and design criteria that are pertinent to the solution of intergranular cracking incidences in the 304 stainless steel/oxygenated water system at 288°C.

"Even the best research is of little use unless it moves out of the laboratory and into the marketplace"

Business Week, July 8, p. 87, 1985.

Subject
Strain rate, Water, Piping, Stress intensity, Corrosion rate, Predicted corrosion rate, Crack propagation, Corrosion cracking, Stress cracking, Stress, Stainless steel, Corrosion potential, Conductivity
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1987
Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP)
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