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Some common features of the transgranular embrittlement of α-titanium alloys in chloride solutions, hot salts, liquid metals, and air are established. These types of brittle fracture are typical symptoms of trans-granular embrittlement along the basal (near-basal) cleavage planes of metals (alloys) with hcp crystal lattices with various values of the ratioc/a. In this connection, the role of alloying elements and the mechanism of corrosion cracking of α-titanium alloys in chloride solutions are reconsidered.
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Central Scientific Research Institute of Structural Materials “Prometheus,” St. Petersburg. Translated from Fiziko-Khimicheskaya Mekhanika Materialov, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 75–77, January–February, 1994.
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Igolkin, A.I. Some features of the transgranular embrittlement of α-titanium alloys under the influence of the environment. Mater Sci 30, 72–74 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00559020
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