… Though, the cracks did not always initiate or … -existing local strains from the applied cold
work, the local strains surrounding the cracked boundaries had contributions from both the crack …

… of temperature, strain rate and degree of prior cold-work. Select slow-strain rate tensile tests
in autoclaves enabled the role of local strain heterogeneity in crack initiation in pressurized …

… that cold working exacerbates stress corrosion cracking (SCC… by which the local strains
generated by cold work influences … changes in the local strains caused by cold work and by SCC …

… use cold worked materials to simulate the residual strain … to CW induced strain prior to the
crack propagation as shown … crack tip strain field was enhanced by the high local residual …

… have recently reported that cold working exacerbates stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of …
cold work as a homogeneous effect, the presence of grain boundaries results in local strain …

… The CGR of SCC was similar to the previous results obtained from cold-worked Alloy 690
with a banded microstructure,9–10 and higher than the results obtained from …

… This stress may be supplied by service loads, cold work, mismatch in … before cracking
occurs, and local barriers to dislocation motion, … growth due to the induced dynamic straining. …

… simulated by applying a pre-strain on non-irradiated material prior to stress corrosion … A
local strain rate was necessary for crack propagation in laboratory conditions. Very low creep …

… dimples, and region of SCC with secondary cracks along the loading axis. Whilst the … stress
corrosion cracks. The study found that SCC susceptibility of the ASS is directly linked to strain …

… in a heavily cold worked condition, effective plastic strains of … It was therefore proposed that
high local strains near the grain … the sample material before cold working it may improve the …