(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 ...

Overvoltage associated with the liberation of hydrogen gas.

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

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

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.

Localized corrosion of a metal surface, confined to a point or small area, that takes the form of cavities or pits.

Heat treatment carried out in steel to reduce internal stresses.

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.

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

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.

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)

See intergranular cracking.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 stress condition in linear elastic fracture mechanics in which the stress in the thickness direction is zero; most nearly achieved in loading very thin sheet along a direction parallel to the surface of the sheet. Under plane-stress conditions, the pl ...