Controlling grain boundary energy to make austenitic stainless steels resistant to intergranular stress corrosion cracking

Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 402-407

  Wasnik, D N ^a   Kain, V ^b   Samajdar, I ^a   Verlinden, B ^c   De, P K ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Austenitic stainless steel; Corrosion; Deformation processing; Grain boundaries; Intergranular corrosion; Intergranular stress corrosion cracking; Sensitization stress corrosion cracking

Indexed keywords

AUSTENITE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HEAT TREATMENT; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

INTERGRANULAR CORROSION;

STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 0041817944     PISSN: 10599495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1361/105994903770342926     Document Type: Article

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