| Abstract: | We determine the strength of contacting steel specimens in a corrosive medium using the modified chemical potentials Φ of
the conduction electrons. The potentials are related to integral physical quantities that characterize the hydrogen content
in the surface layers of the plates and are evaluated by an experimental procedure based on measurement of the surface tension
and energy. A new strength criterion involving the potentials Φ is constructed.
Karpenko Physicomechanical Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, L'viv. Translated from Fizyko-Khimichna Mekhanika Materialiv,
Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 34–38, March–April, 1998. |
