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Title: Electrochemical aspects of stress-corrosion cracking in. cap alpha. -brass

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OSTI ID:6129008

This paper considers a number of aspects of the stress-corrosion cracking of brass from the point of view of the localized electrochemical processes occurring at the tip of a propagating crack. The principal system examined is the intergranular SCC of 70-30 brass in near-neutral ammoniacal solutions, for which a detailed mechanism is developed. In addition, the effects of nitrite ions in promoting SCC of both brass and copper are considered.

Research Organization:
Cambridge Univ. (UK). Dept. of Metallurgy and Materials Science
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH00016
OSTI ID:
6129008
Report Number(s):
BNL-29589; CONF-811013-1; ON: DE81022078
Resource Relation:
Conference: Electrochemical Society conference, Denver, CO, USA, 11 Oct 1981
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English