Pit to crack transition in stress corrosion cracking of a steam turbine disc steel

Corrosion Science

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1239-1264

  Turnbull, A ^a   Zhou, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. Steel; C. Stress corrosion; Pitting corrosion

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; SOLUTIONS; STEEL STRUCTURES; TENSILE TESTING; TURBINES; WATER AERATION;

CRACK TRANSITION; DEAERATION;

STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

PITTING CORROSION; STEAM TURBINE; STEEL; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

EID: 1642488893     PISSN: 0010938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2003.09.017     Document Type: Article

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