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R. M. Latanision
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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J. R. Pickens
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Martin Marietta Laboratories, Baltimore, USA
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Table of contents (52 chapters)
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Tutorial Lectures on Interfaces
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Tutorial Lectures on Solution Chemistry
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Front Matter
Pages 495-495
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- H. J. Flitt, J. O’M. Bockris
Pages 549-592
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New Concepts in Atomistics of Fracture
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Front Matter
Pages 669-669
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- G. J. Dienes, Arthur Paskin
Pages 671-705
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Hydrogen Embrittlement
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Front Matter
Pages 731-731
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- J. P. Hirth, H. H. Johnson
Pages 771-787
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Contributed Papers
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- M. P. Puls, A. J. Rogowski
Pages 789-794
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- Hideo Kitagawa, Yukio Kojima
Pages 799-811
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- I. M. Bernstein, A. W. Thompson
Pages 813-821
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- B. J. Berkowitz, F. H. Heubaum
Pages 823-827
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- Horst Vehoff, Wolfgang Rothe, P. Neumann
Pages 829-834
About this book
It is now more than 100 years since certain detrimental effects on the ductility of iron were first associated with the presence of hydrogen. Not only is hydrogen embrittlement still a major industri al problem, but it is safe to say that in a mechanistic sense we still do not know what hydrogen (but not nitrogen or oxygen, for example) does on an atomic scale to induce this degradation. The same applies to other examples of environmentally-induced fracture: what is it about the ubiquitous chloride ion that induces premature catastrophic fracture (stress corrosion cracking) of ordinarily ductile austenitic stainless steels? Why, moreover, are halide ions troublesome but the nitrate or sulfate anions not deleterious to such stainless steels? Likewise, why are some solid metals embrit tled catastrophically by same liquid metals (liquid metal embrit tlement) - copper and aluminum, for example, are embrittled by liquid mercury. In short, despite all that we may know about the materials science and mechanics of fracture on a macroscopic scale, we know little about the atomistics of fracture in the absence of environmental interactions and even less when embrittlement phe nomena such as those described above are involved. On the other hand, it is interesting to note that physical chemists and surface chemists also have interests in the same kinds of interactions that occur on an atomic scale when metals such as nickel or platinum are used, for example, as catalysts for chemical reactions.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
R. M. Latanision
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Martin Marietta Laboratories, Baltimore, USA
J. R. Pickens