Stress corrosion crack branching in high
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C.S. Carter
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Article
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1971
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The criteria for stress corrosion crack branching in high-strength steels are shown to be (1) a constant crack velocity and (2) attainment of a critical stress intensity Klb. For the steels investigated, values of K,b I K,,,, range from 2 to 4. This indicates that when K,, /K,, exceeds 0.5, rapid br