Failure of 17-4 PH Stainless Steel Bolts on a Titan Space Launch Vehicle
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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.
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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