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ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories
ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Mechanical and Machine Components
ASM International
ISBN electronic:
978-1-62708-225-9
Publication date:
2019
Book Chapter
Failure of 17-4 PH Stainless Steel Bolts on a Titan Space Launch Vehicle
By
Louis Raymond
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Louis Raymond
Manager, Metallurgy Research Section, Aerospace Corp.
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Ernest G. Kendall
Ernest G. Kendall
head, Metallurgy and Ceramics Dept., Aerospace Corp.
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Published:2019
Abstract
Several stainless steel bolts used on a Titan Space Launch Vehicle broke at the shank and failure was attributed to stress-corrosion cracking. But results could not be duplicated in the laboratory with salt-solution immersion tests until the real culprit was established: the secondary effect of galvanic coupling, hydrogen embrittlement.
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Louis Raymond, Ernest G. Kendall, Failure of 17-4 PH Stainless Steel Bolts on a Titan Space Launch Vehicle, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Mechanical and Machine Components, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.mech.c9001727
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