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Fracture Mechanics Approach to Stress Corrosion

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Even dough stress corrosion is an electrochemical process it can be analyzed by an advanced mechanical tool like the Irwin stress intensity factor. This actually makes a many-sided and complex phenomenon be treated with a single parameter theory. The fundamental result is that there is a threshold value below which corrosion cannot occur and once occurred it propagates with a rate that is independent of the applied stress intensity factor.

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Milella, P.P. (2013). Fracture Mechanics Approach to Stress Corrosion. In: Fatigue and Corrosion in Metals. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2336-9_15

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