WP5's overall objective is to bring together scientists and engineers encountering the problem of crack initiation and propagation in different application fields including nuclear, petrochemical and aeronautical industries. In such environments fracture often results from a simultaneous action of mechanical loading and aggressive environment which can be either water or hydrogen or reactive gases or even more specific like liquid metal. The common feature requested for accurate prediction of the remaining lifetime is the need to understand the mechanisms of crack initiation and crack propagation.
WP5 specific missions concern the fields of hydrogen induced cracking, stress corrosion cracking, fatigue-corrosion, high temperature corrosion and liquid metal embrittlement and are aimed at
- confronting physico-chemical and mechanical approaches in modelling environment sensitive fracture,
- promoting the use of advanced local investigation methods (AFM, EBSD, Auger/XPS, nanomechanical testing) for submicrometer range description of crack initiation sites and crack-tip characteristics and
- promoting the use of numerical simulations based on multiscale physical approach.
- contributing to the definition of recommendations through joint sessions with colleagues from different application fields.
Minutes of the WP meetings:
WP meeting during EUROCORR 2010, 14 September 2010, Moscow, Russia
First announcement of the "Workshop on occurrence and mechanisms of Environmentally Assisted Cracking"
on the occasion of Eurocorr 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey
WP business meetings:
The next meeting of the WP on Environmental Sensitive Fracture will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, during EUROCORR 2012
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