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Stress corrosion cracking of stainless steels in highpressure. Start studying wenman nuclear materials primary stress corrosion cracking. Then, the stress corrosion cracking mechanism for various materials in conditions that are. A mechanism for stress corrosion cracking of duplex stainless steels in hot alkaline environments in the presence of sulfide andor chloride was proposed. The study of stress corrosion was supported by the office of navel. However, scc has on some occasions been observed on the oxygen side of. A study on the mechanism of stress corrosion cracking of duplex. Stresscorrosion cracking scc is a term used to describe service failures in engineering materials that occur by slow, environmentally induced. Stress corrosion cracking scc is the formation and growth of crack through materials.