Stress corrosion cracking of a 14 wt% Cr martensitic stainless steel, with commercial names PH-15Cr5Ni, FV520B or X4CrNiCuMo15-5, used for the manufacture of low pressure turbine blades, has been studied with the intention of gaining a better understanding of the processes involved, how they occur and why. Industrially this is very important as stress corrosion cracking is considered to be a delayed failure process, whereby microscopic cracks can potentially propagate through a metal undetected until catastrophic failure occurs. The aim of this work is to establish links between crack length and external factors, such as exposure time, in order to devise a method of dating stress corrosion cracks and therefore predicting their possible occurrence in-service.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:734143 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Verona, Claire L. |
| Publisher | Loughborough University |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10165 |
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