Stan Lynch

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative importance of these mechanisms for different fracture modes and materials are discussed based on detailed fractographic observations and critical experiments, and the evidence supporting various hypotheses, such as those based on hydride formation, hydrogenenhanced decohesion, hydrogen-enhanced localised plasticity, adsorption-induced dislocation emission, and hydrogen-vacancy interactions, are summarised.

TL;DR: In this article, basic aspects of stress-corrosion cracking (SCC) in metallic materials are outlined, followed by a summary of the numerous mechanisms that have been proposed for SCC.

TL;DR: In this article, basic aspects of stress-corrosion cracking (SCC) in metallic materials are outlined, followed by a summary of the numerous mechanisms that have been proposed for SCC.

TL;DR: Some fractographic and metallographic contributions to understand fatigue crack growth in metallic materials are reviewed, with an emphasis on environmentally assisted fatigue as mentioned in this paper, where the formation of ductile and brittle striations at intermediate-to-high ΔK, where each stress cycle produces a striation, is reasonably well understood at the microscopic level.

TL;DR: In this article, the reasons why intergranular cracking and corrosion can occur preferentially along grain boundaries in a wide variety of metallic materials are discussed, along with case histories of failures involving inter-granular fracture and corrosion.