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STRESS CORROSION CRACKING OF 7079-T651 ALUMINUM IN RESPONSE TO A CONSTANT STRESS INTENSITY

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1977
Summary:
Double cantilever beam specimens of 7079-T651 aluminum were subjected to low constant stress intensities in a sea water environment to determine the stress corrosion cracking response. In addition to a constant stress intensity some specimens were subjected to controlled, constant potentials. Despite the fact that all tests were in Region I of the crack growth rate-stress intensity curve, where the former has been projected to be very dependent upon the latter, a unique relationship between stress intensity and crack growth rate was not always indicated. Therefore, some variable other than stress intensity is assumed to control crack growth, particularly for the first several hundred hours of exposure. The observed behavior is discussed in terms of accepted theories of stress corrosion cracking in high strength aluminum alloys, including electrochemical dissolution and hydrogen embrittlement.
Title: STRESS CORROSION CRACKING OF 7079-T651 ALUMINUM IN RESPONSE TO A CONSTANT STRESS INTENSITY.
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Name(s): SCOTT, DARWIN HAROLD, II.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Hartt, William H., Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1977
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 44 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Double cantilever beam specimens of 7079-T651 aluminum were subjected to low constant stress intensities in a sea water environment to determine the stress corrosion cracking response. In addition to a constant stress intensity some specimens were subjected to controlled, constant potentials. Despite the fact that all tests were in Region I of the crack growth rate-stress intensity curve, where the former has been projected to be very dependent upon the latter, a unique relationship between stress intensity and crack growth rate was not always indicated. Therefore, some variable other than stress intensity is assumed to control crack growth, particularly for the first several hundred hours of exposure. The observed behavior is discussed in terms of accepted theories of stress corrosion cracking in high strength aluminum alloys, including electrochemical dissolution and hydrogen embrittlement.
Identifier: 13878 (digitool), FADT13878 (IID), fau:10706 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.E.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.
Subject(s): Stress corrosion
Aluminum--Corrosion
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