The research challenges the traditional viewpoint that the simultaneous presence of stress and a corrosive environment is a requirement for SCC and demonstrates that stress and corrosion can act ...

Stress Corrosion Cracking is a common problem affecting turbomachinery components such as rotor discs, steam turbine blades and compressor impellers, and is a major factor driving component repair.

PARIS, March 7 (Reuters) - France's state-controlled nuclear energy operator EDF has detected a new crack located at its Penly 1 reactor in its latest update on stress corrosion issues, France's ANS ...

Researchers find a solid protective coating material that can flow like a liquid to repair any cracks that develop. Researchers have found that a solid oxide protective coating for metals can, when ...

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France's nuclear safety regulator, the Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire, has approved EDF's revised programme to rectify stress corrosion issues at its French nuclear power plants. Under EDF's schedule, ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - An explosion and fire in 2018 along an Enbridge Inc natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia was caused by normal stress that, coupled with corrosion, created ...

Tempe, Ariz., Sept.10, 2018 - An Arizona State University research team has released new insights about intergranular stress-corrosion cracking (SCC), an environmental cause of premature failure in ...