The Stainless Steel Passivation: Discover the Benefits
In the last lesson we found that stainless steel is more resistant to external agents thanks to Chrome. This is because the latter is an element capable of passivating and protecting steel from corrosion. But what are corrosion and passivation? Corrosion It is the main enemy of all metals. Common steels react with the environment […]
About the Fatigue Strength of Metals and Alloys.
In our today’s blog post about the fatigue strength of metals and alloys. Usually, this type of resistance is represented as S-N curves. Here the stress with the number of cycles to failure are related. High temperature fatigue Temperature has a significant effect. It is well known that an increase in temperature always results in […]
Microscopic Failure Mechanisms of Metals – Fractures
Today we talk about the microscopic failure mechanisms of metals. Specifically, we focus on the fractures and consequently on the crack propagation. What is a fracture? And how does it takes place? A fracture is the separation of an object or a material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. But specifically […]