Abstract
Quasi-cleavage facets have been detected in the stress corrosion cracking fracture of type 304 and type 316 austenitic stainless steels under an environment containing chloride. Their morphology and crystal orientation were analyzed. In both steels the cold-worked material (CW) showed higher crack propagation rate than annealed one (ST), where the variation of the propagated crystal planes of the CW was higher than that of the ST, and the {111} facet was detected in the CW. Then the CW reveals higher possibilities to choose a low energy crack path rather than the ST. The rearrangement and multiply of {111} dislocation arrays may introduce the {111} transgranular cracking in the CW, and the combining duplex {111} slip operations may result in the {110} facet.
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