6th International conference on environmentally-assisted cracking (Reston, Washington, DC, USA, July 16–21, 2023)
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Asuri K. Vasudevan
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Fritz Friedersdorf
This ongoing series of conferences continues to assemble researchers with a broad appreciation of materials, chemistry and mechanics with a goal to develop a core of understanding of environment-assisted cracking (EAC). The set of papers published here in this special issue of corrosion reviews reflects the workshop’s broadening scope to now include EAC in higher temperature environments and the adoption of more balanced and inclusive use of experimental and modelling/simulation approaches to elucidate the phenomenon.
During the workshop it was refreshing and rewarding to witness an evolving convergence of experimental tools to enable in situ experimental observations up to a near atom scale and simulation/modelling tools, potentially capable of describing chemical and mechanical interactions during the cracking process. This provides realistic optimism that the mechanistic fundamentals of EAC will eventually become better understood and thereby enable engineers and designers to better manage EAC of lighter, stronger engineering materials during their commercial use.
These exciting developments, however, clearly highlight the need to expand future activities to include detailed studies of the initiation and very early stages of EAC (and hydrogen embrittlement), which when prevented would provide ‘practically immune’ materials offering ‘trouble-free’ service during their use in structural applications.
During our next workshop, scheduled to be held in Europe in 2026, we wish to focus attention on the initiation of EAC (including hydrogen embrittlement), paying particular attention to activities emerging from the use of experimental and modelling methods (including artificial intelligence) that provide the local precision/resolution and in situ capabilities to evaluate the roles of the local: alloy microstructure and chemistry, loading conditions and plasticity and the environmental conditions.
We thank all the referees and the Editorial Board of Corrosion Reviews and, in particular, Dr. Gunda Stöber, for helping with the review of the manuscripts. Symposium organizers: Asuri K. Vasudevan, N.J. Henry Holroyd, Fritz Friedersdorf, Mehdi Amiri and Ronald M. Latanision.
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Research ethics: Not applicable.
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Author contributions: The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Data availability: Not applicable.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editor’s Note
- Welcoming a new Co-Editor-in-Chief
- Editorial
- 6th International conference on environmentally-assisted cracking (Reston, Washington, DC, USA, July 16–21, 2023)
- General Topics
- Crack initiation during environment-induced cracking of metals: current status
- Concept of “chemical notch” to study stress-corrosion
- On the role of surface stress in environment-assisted fracture
- Environmentally-Assisted Cracking of Stainless Steel and Aluminum Alloys
- Quantification of SCC mechanisms in austenitic alloys under PWR primary water conditions
- Evaluation of chloride stress corrosion cracking susceptibility of stainless steels
- The impact of loading rate on chloride induced stress corrosion cracking of 304L stainless steel
- In-situ studies on environmental degradation in Al 7075 in saltwater environment under tensile loading
- Environmentally-Assisted Cracking – Quasi-Static/Cyclic Loading Interface
- On relating quasi-static load threshold K1scc to K1c
- Relationship between fatigue crack threshold Kmax,th and K1SCC
- Modelling
- Modeling hydrogen diffusion in precipitation hardened nickel-based alloy 718 by microstructural modeling
- A computational framework for probabilistic modeling of galvanic corrosion for automotive applications
- Using a reverse life plot for estimating fatigue endurance/limit
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editor’s Note
- Welcoming a new Co-Editor-in-Chief
- Editorial
- 6th International conference on environmentally-assisted cracking (Reston, Washington, DC, USA, July 16–21, 2023)
- General Topics
- Crack initiation during environment-induced cracking of metals: current status
- Concept of “chemical notch” to study stress-corrosion
- On the role of surface stress in environment-assisted fracture
- Environmentally-Assisted Cracking of Stainless Steel and Aluminum Alloys
- Quantification of SCC mechanisms in austenitic alloys under PWR primary water conditions
- Evaluation of chloride stress corrosion cracking susceptibility of stainless steels
- The impact of loading rate on chloride induced stress corrosion cracking of 304L stainless steel
- In-situ studies on environmental degradation in Al 7075 in saltwater environment under tensile loading
- Environmentally-Assisted Cracking – Quasi-Static/Cyclic Loading Interface
- On relating quasi-static load threshold K1scc to K1c
- Relationship between fatigue crack threshold Kmax,th and K1SCC
- Modelling
- Modeling hydrogen diffusion in precipitation hardened nickel-based alloy 718 by microstructural modeling
- A computational framework for probabilistic modeling of galvanic corrosion for automotive applications
- Using a reverse life plot for estimating fatigue endurance/limit
