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Predicting Oxide Spallation from Sulphur-Contaminated Oxide/Metal Interfaces

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The deleterious effect of sulphur contamination on oxide spallation has been well demonstrated experimentally. The present paper attempts to account for this using finite-element modelling of crack growth along a sulphur-contaminated interface during cooling. Sulphur reduces the intrinsic work of adhesion, Wad, of this interface and, it is suggested, this is equivalent to reducing the characteristic fracture stress for that interface. It is shown that this approach does predict the typical trends in S-bearing alloys of spallation after shorter exposure times. A significant result is that the effective fracture energy for spallation, γeff, reduces with increasing sulphur contamination but is always 1–2 orders of magnitude larger than Wad. This high value for γeff arises because of creep relaxation within the alloy. Sulphur does not affect this process directly but reduces the extent of creep relaxation in a cooling transient by initiating spallation at a smaller value of temperature drop.

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Evans, H.E. Predicting Oxide Spallation from Sulphur-Contaminated Oxide/Metal Interfaces. Oxid Met 79, 3–14 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11085-012-9322-6

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