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Microstructure-based modeling of hydrogen assisted cracking in pearlitic steels

Jesús Toribio, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2001 - 
- Vol. 319, pp 540-543
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In this paper, a microstructure-based modeling of the environmentally assisted fracture phenomenon is proposed to rationalize the results for diferent degrees of drawing, based on the model by Miller and Smith of shear cracking in pearlite.
Abstract
This paper analyzes the process of hydrogen assisted cracking in pearlitic steels, which are increasingly cold drawn in the course of manufacturing to produce prestressing steel wires used in prestressed concrete. A microstructure-based modeling of the environmentally-assisted fracture phenomenon is proposed to rationalize the results for diferent degrees of drawing. The approach is based on two items — (i) the model by Miller and Smith of shear cracking (SC) in pearlite; (ii) the mechanism of hydrogen enhanced decohesion (HEDE) proposed by Gerberich. There is an evolution from a predominant micromechanism of SC in slightly drawn steels to a predominant micromechanism of HEDE in heavily drawn steels.

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Effect of cumulative cold drawing on the pearlite interlamellar spacing in eutectoid steel

Jesús Toribio, +1 more
- 03 Jul 1998 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis is made of the influence of continuous cold drawing on the interlamellar spacing of an eutectoid prestressing steel and the effect of cumulative straining on this microstructural parameter.
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Environment sensitive cracking of pre-stressing steels

TL;DR: Slow strain rate stress corrosion tests on notched or pre-cracked specimens of pre-stressing steel immersed in Ca(OH)2 solutions, to which HCl was added where the pH needed to be reduced, have shown that enhanced cracking results at potentials below about − 900 mV, irrespective of pH, with an intermediate region in which cracking is absent or less severe than at other potentials.
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Pitting, crevice and stress corrosion cracking studies of cold drawn eutectoid steels

TL;DR: In this article, the role of stress corrosion cracking in the failure of cold drawn eutectoid steels in a concrete environment was investigated, and it was shown that pitting and crevice corrosion could be predicted from potentiostatic determinations on unstrained specimens.
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Hydrogen-assisted micro-damage evolution in pearlitic steel

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the microscopic appearance and progression of the TTS region from the initiation (subcritical) to the fracture (critical) point, to elucidate on some specific features of the evolution of this hydrogen-affected region throughout fracture tests under a hydrogen environment in a triaxial stress state produced in the vicinity of a notch.
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Environmentally assisted stress-corrosion cracking of high-strength carbon steel patented wire

TL;DR: In this paper, a reinforced wall of such a structure was severely cracked and the skeletal high-strength carbon steel wires were exposed to environmental corrosive conditions, and a number of wires failed while being subjected to a tension stress lower than their strength.
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