Relativity between corrosion-induced stress and stress corrosion cracking of brass in an ammonia solution

The susceptibility to stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of brass in an ammonia solution with various pH values or under various applied potentials was measured at slow strain rate tests. The additive stress in the same solution was measured using two methods. The results indicate that the variation of the susceptibility to SCC with pH value or with potential is in an excellent agreement with the corrosion (passive film or dezincification layer)-induced stress. When pH? 7, the corrosion-induced tensile stress and the susceptibility to SCC have maximum values and hardly change with increasing the pH value. However, when pH<7, both the corrosion-induced tensile stress and the susceptibility to SCC reduce rapidly with decreasing the pH value. Both the corrosion-induced tensile stress and the susceptibility to SCC have maximum values at the open-circuit potential, decrease slightly under the anodic polarization, and reduce gradually to zero under the cathodic polarization.     

Intergranular precipitation of copper-nickel alloys induced by seawater corrosion

This paper presents the observed grain boundary structure of Cu：Ni 70：30 alloy tubes before and after exposure to seawater. The results show that the thin platelet precipitates along grain boundaries of the alloys nucleated in the process of heat treatment and coarsened when they were exposed to seawater, indicating that the coarsening was induced by seawater corrosion. The diffraction image of the precipitate is fringe structure and possessed its own wave lengths. The fine scale structure is susceptible to intergranular corrosion, which could be confirmed by corrosion morphology observation of specimens after a long-time seawater exposure. The experiments were carried out by means of scanning electron microscopy （SEM）, transmission electron microscopy （TEM）, optical metallography （OM） and tensile testing etc., detecting corrosion morphology, microstructure and the mechanical property change due to the precipitation coarsening induced at grain boundaries of the specimens during exposure in seawater.     

锈蚀钢筋混凝土受弯构件承载力评估

考虑锈胀力引起的钢筋周围混凝土双向应力状态,建立了锈蚀开裂前钢筋混凝土受弯构件承载力评估模型;应用无粘结预应力钢筋应力计算方法,又建立了锈蚀开裂后钢筋混凝土受弯构件承载力评估模型。试验结果表明：建立的承载力评估模型与试验结果吻合较好,可用于锈蚀钢筋混凝土受弯构件承载力评估。