Environmentally Assisted Cracking
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 9448
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmentally assisted cracking; austenitic stainless steels; ferritic steels; advanced steels; high-temperature water; steam; heavy liquid metal; crack initiation; fracture; accelerated testing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmentally assisted cracking is a degradation process occurring in all operating systems where structure materials are not sufficiently resistant to environmental stress. Besides corrosion, it is the most frequent cause of the failure of structure components.
New knowledge is needed to assist in the selection of materials for new equipment designs, products, and energy concepts. Cracking has been investigated in many material–environment systems, but the mechanisms including early stages of the crack development are only partially understood. Whereas steels are the most widely used and studied construction materials, the objective of this Special Issue is to learn from results and share knowledge between different metal–environment systems.
The Special Issue will cover recent progress in our understanding of the degradation in various systems, where structure materials, preferably metals, are in contact with cooling media, including all its aspects from microscopical observations to simulations. Experimental investigation and modelling of metal–environment-stress interactions of present, advance processed and surface-treated steels, as well as selected aspects of the compatibility of advanced metals for high-temperature industry systems and research on surface finish effects, applied stress, and time to crack initiation extension are covered.
Dr. Anna Hojná
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal–environment compatibility
- advanced steels
- cooling or lubricating medium
- high-temperature water and steam
- liquid metal environment
- understanding the mechanism
- crack initiation investigation
- metal-medium-stress interaction modelling
- surface finish effect
- failure analysis
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