186.
A model is proposed to explain transgranular-stress corrosion cracking (T-SCC) in face-centered cubic (fcc) materials. Crack
propagation is shown to be anisotropic, in that growth near {110} < 001> is discontinuous due to crack arrest by dislocation
blunting whereas growth away from this growth orientation is continuous. For the former case, renucleation of arrested cracks
involves active dissolution of shear bands at the crack tip, which changes the stress state at Lomer-Cottrell locks, causing
them to fail by cleavage. Once the crack is nucleated, its instantaneous macroscopic crack-growth velocity is considered to
be comprised of multiple nucleation of microcracks with intervening arrests. This microcracking results from the interaction
of the stress fields from neighboring cracks which are forming simultaneously, the crack-opening constraint due to ligaments
which act as “bridges” behind the crack front, and the localized dissolution at the microcrack tip which affects
K
IC and leads to the “cobblestone” appearance. Experimental evidence and theoretical considerations are presented to support
the model. The system studied was Cu-25 at. pct Au in 0.6 M NaCl solution at potentials between 300 and 400 mV (sce), which
precludes hydrogen embrittlement.
This article is based on a presentation made in the symposium “Quasi-Brittle Fracture” presented during the TMS fall meeting,
Cincinnati, OH, October 21–24, 1991, under the auspices of the TMS Mechanical Metallurgy Committee and the ASM/MSD Flow and
Fracture Committee.
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