Abstract
Transgranular stress-corrosion cracking is discussed and explained by a mechanism the essence of which is the inadequate repassivation of emergent slip steps. It is argued that the importance of many of the phenomenological factors that have been used to explain stress-corrosion cracking lies in the influence that these factors exert on the repassivation kinetics. The interdependence of metallurgical substructure and electrode kinetics is a particular feature of the proposed mechanism which is discussed with particular reference to austenitic stainless steels and titanium alloys. Its wider application to intergranular cracking is briefly described.
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