... of thermal shock stresses occurs when hot surfaces are exposed to splashing of cold water. This eventually may lead to crack nucleation and crack growth. However, not all thermal shock cracks lead to failures (such as rupture, leak, or, in more brittle material, fragmentation), indeed the most frequent...

... cracking brittle fracture brittleness hydrogen embrittlement Fatigue crack propagation data for Type 304 stainless steel (304 SS) were obtained in air and an elevated temperature aqueous environment. The data were developed from instrumented fatigue tests on double-edged notched (DEN) fatigue...