The mechanism of aqueous stress-corrosion cracking of α + β titanium alloys

Autor: Bruce Hinton, Sheng Cao, Xiaobo Chen, Su-Ming Zhu, James C. Williams, Rodney R. Boyer, Xinhua Wu, Xigen Zhou, Chao Voon Samuel Lim
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Corrosion Science. 125:29-39
ISSN: 0010-938X
Popis: In a previous paper (Cao et al., 2017) [1], a transition in fracture mode in aqueous NaCl Stress-Corrosion Cracking (SCC) of Ti-8Al-1Mo–1 V was reported. This paper attempts to unravel the operating mechanism for SCC by dislocation analysis on the Focus Ion Beam (FIB) lift-out foils from pre-crack and the SCC regions. It is shown that both basal a > and c + a > slips are operative in the SCC region while the basal a > is the only activated system in the pre-crack region. Moreover, there is an increase in dislocation density in the SCC region compared to the pre-crack region. Based on these observations, combined Absorption Induced Dislocation Emission (AIDE) and Hydrogen Enhanced Localized Plasticity (HELP) is proposed to be the operating mechanisms for SCC in α+β titanium alloys.
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