Stress Corrosion Cracking Webinar Recording

An exploration of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) in hot water environments, delivered by Dr Peter Andresen, a world-renowned expert in the area with over 50 years of experience in the nuclear industry.

This is an incredible opportunity to gain insights into environmentally assisted cracking systems from one of the foremost experts in the field.

SCC and corrosion fatigue became a widespread issue during the industrial revolution, with several sources reporting 50,000 deaths and 2,000,000 injuries from steam boiler failures in a single year in the United States. While this eventually led to the development of pressure vessel and boiler codes to provide design margins against overload and fatigue, even now, 165 years later, the design codes transfer to the individual designer the job of ensuring that SCC will not occur.

This simplistic requirement of immunity to SCC has generally been assessed using simple, short-term tests that would only identify conditions of severe susceptibility and focus on crack initiation with its inherent ambiguity and reliance on near-surface conditions that are not understood or well-characterised in hot water environments, the focus of this talk.

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