The occurrence of embrittlement in a material below the melting point of the embrittling species. See also liquid-metal embrittlement.

Overvoltage associated with the liberation of hydrogen gas.

(1)An isothermal reversible reaction in which a liquid solution is converted into two or more intimately mixed solids on cooling, the number of solids formed being the same as the number of components in the system. (2) An alloy having the composition ind ...

Any aquatic organism with a sessile adult stage that attaches to and fouls underwater structures of ships.

A range of corrosion potential values in which unacceptable corrosion resistance is achieved for a particular purpose.

Heat treatment carried out in steel to reduce internal stresses.

A thermal spraying process in which the coating material is melted with heat from a plasma torch that generates a nontransferred arc: molten coating material is propelled against the base metal by the hot, ionized gas issuing from the torch.

Descriptive treatment of fracture, especially in metals, with specific reference to photographs of the fracture surface. Macrofractography involves photographs at low magnification (< 25x); microfractography, photographs at high magnification (>25x)

A method of fracture analysis that can determine the stress (or load) required to induce fracture instability in a structure containing a cracklike flaw of known size and shape. See also fracture mechanics and stress-intensity factor.

See biological corrosion.

That type of force that causes or tends to cause two contiguous parts of the same body to slide relative to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

The potential of an electrode in an electrolytic solution when the forward rate of a given reaction is exactly equal to the reverse rate. The equilibrium potential can only be defined with respect to a specific electrochemical reaction.

An alloy having an amorphous or glassy structure. See also amorphous solid.

A twisting deformation of a solid body about an axis in which lines that were initially parallel to the axis become helices.

A type of wear that occurs between tight-fitting surfaces subjected to cyclic relative motion of extremely small amplitude. Usually, fretting is accompanied by corrosion, especially of the very fine wear debris.

See intergranular cracking.

A scaling factor, usually denoted by the symbol K, used in linear-elastic fracture mechanics to describe the intensification of applied stress at the tip of a crack of known size and shape. At the onset of rapid crack propagation in any structure containi ...

The opposition that a device or material offers to the flow of direct current, equal to the voltage drop across the element divided by the current through the element. Also called electrical resistance.

An obsolete term describing oil or grease coatings used to provide temporary protection against atmospheric corrosion.

Hardening caused by the precipitation of a constituent from a supersaturated solid solution. See also age hardening and aging.