Corrosion pitting and environmentally assisted small crack growth

Corrosion pitting and environmentally assisted small crack growth.

In many applications, corrosion pits act as precursors to cracking, but qualitative and quantitative prediction of damage evolution has been hampered by lack of insights into the process by which a crack develops from a pit. An overview is given of recent breakthroughs in characterization and understanding of the pit-to-crack transition using advanced three-dimensional imaging techniques such a...

Pitting Corrosion Monitoring Using Acoustic Emission

Stress Corrosion Crack Growth Mechanism on SUS316L Stainless Steel

The stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of stainless steel is one of the biggest problems for maintaining atomic power and chemical plants. However the mechanism has not been solved because of difficulty in observing hydrogen movement. In order to solve this problem, the author has developed a new SCC test method that enables the super Kelvin force microscope (SKFM) and the Kelvin force microscope ...

Ultrasonic Detection and Measuring of Isolated or Pitting Corrosion (ipc)

AS2542.3 (Determination of Thickness – Use of Ultrasonic Testing) states: “This standard specifies six methods for determination of thickness of material based on the use of ultrasonic pulse-echo principals where the scanning and reflecting surfaces are substantially parallel”. In many cases, the principals and procedures used in AS2452.3 are not applicable for the detection and measuring of is...

Roughness, Residual Stresses and Pitting Corrosion Effect on Shot

Original scientific paper The paper deals with the effect of roughness, residual stresses and pitting corrosion on different shot peened (SP) ENAW 7075 aluminium alloy in different states. Suitable residual stress profile increases the applicability and life cycle of mechanical parts, treated by shot peening. Pitting corrosion has a major influence on aging of structural elements made of high s...