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Role of Slip Mode on Stress Corrosion Cracking Behavior

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In this article, we examine the effect of aging treatment and the role of planarity of slip on stress corrosion cracking (SCC) behavior in precipitation-hardened alloys. With aging, the slip mode can change from a planar slip in the underage (UA) to a wavy slip in the overage (OA) region. This, in turn, results in sharpening the crack tip in the UA compared to blunting in the OA condition. We propose that the planar slip enhances the stress concentration effects by making the alloys more susceptible to SCC. In addition, the planarity of slip enhances plateau velocities, reduces thresholds for SCC, and reduces component life. We show that the effect of slip planarity is somewhat similar to the effects of mechanically induced stress concentrations such as due to the presence of sharp notches. Aging treatment also causes variations in the matrix and grain boundary (GB) microstructures, along with typical mechanical and SCC properties. These properties include yield stress, work hardening rate, fracture toughness K IC , thresholds K Iscc, and steady-state plateau velocity (da/dt). The SCC data for a wide range of ductile alloys including 7050, 7075, 5083, 5456 Al, MAR M steels, and solid solution copper-base alloys are collected from the literature. Our assertion is that slip mode and the resulting stress concentration are important factors in SCC behavior. This is further supported by similar observations in many other systems including some steels, Al alloys, and Cu alloys.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Professor Kujawski, Western Michigan University, for critically reading the manuscript, and Dr. Goswami, NRL Laboratory, for parting with the TEM and SEM of his work. The majority of the literature data was collected at the NRL/NIST libraries over a period of 10 years by both authors. The analysis was done with ONR-ROPO (AKV). KS acknowledges the support received from TDA and the U.S. Navy (NAVAIR) under Contract No. N00421-09-C-0002.

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    K. Sadananda (Consultant)

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Vasudevan, A.K., Sadananda, K. Role of Slip Mode on Stress Corrosion Cracking Behavior. Metall Mater Trans A 42, 405–414 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-010-0471-4

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