... of thermal shock stresses occurs when hot surfaces are exposed to splashing of cold water. This eventually may lead to crack nucleation and crack growth. However, not all thermal shock cracks lead to failures (such as rupture, leak, or, in more brittle material, fragmentation), indeed the most frequent...

... that 304 SS experiences a large environmental effect, and the detailed analysis below shows that this trend was supported by all tests. fatigue cracks fatigue testing stainless steel notch strength environmental degradation thermal stress cracking brittle fracture brittleness hydrogen...