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STUDY OF STRESS CORROSION CRACKING IN 7079-T651 ALUMINUM

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1975
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This study investigated the stress corrosion cracking behavior of aluminum alloy 7079 - T651 in two corrosive environments, sea water and a 3% NaCl-distilled water solution. Self stressing, double cantilever beam specimens were employed; and these were stressed at various levels, exposed in one of the two test environments and crack extension monitored as a function of time. Equations for the plane strain stress intensity factor (K1) were compared and evaluated, with respect to stress intensities calculated from compliance measurements. Results suggest that stress intensity is not the only important variable controlling crack growth rate and a time dependent cracking mechanism may govern a portion of crack growth.
Title: A STUDY OF STRESS CORROSION CRACKING IN 7079-T651 ALUMINUM.
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Name(s): FINNEGAN, JOHN EDMUND.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Hartt, William H., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1975
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 57 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This study investigated the stress corrosion cracking behavior of aluminum alloy 7079 - T651 in two corrosive environments, sea water and a 3% NaCl-distilled water solution. Self stressing, double cantilever beam specimens were employed; and these were stressed at various levels, exposed in one of the two test environments and crack extension monitored as a function of time. Equations for the plane strain stress intensity factor (K1) were compared and evaluated, with respect to stress intensities calculated from compliance measurements. Results suggest that stress intensity is not the only important variable controlling crack growth rate and a time dependent cracking mechanism may govern a portion of crack growth.
Identifier: 13730 (digitool), FADT13730 (IID), fau:10562 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.E.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.
Subject(s): Aluminum--Corrosion
Stress corrosion
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