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Elements of Fracture Mechanics - Prashant Kumar - New Delhi-2009-Pp204

Film-induced cleavage is a mechanism of stress corrosion cracking where cracks propagate through the alternate growth and fracture of brittle surface films on the metal. As the brittle film fractures, it allows rapid crack propagation into the underlying more ductile material before the crack tip blunts. However, if the brittle film then reforms over the blunted crack tip due to corrosion processes, the cycle of brittle film fracture and crack propagation can repeat, leading to further crack growth. Common brittle films that can cause film-induced cleavage include de-alloyed layers in brass.

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Elements of Fracture Mechanics - Prashant Kumar - New Delhi-2009-Pp204

Film-induced cleavage is a mechanism of stress corrosion cracking where cracks propagate through the alternate growth and fracture of brittle surface films on the metal. As the brittle film fractures, it allows rapid crack propagation into the underlying more ductile material before the crack tip blunts. However, if the brittle film then reforms over the blunted crack tip due to corrosion processes, the cycle of brittle film fracture and crack propagation can repeat, leading to further crack growth. Common brittle films that can cause film-induced cleavage include de-alloyed layers in brass.

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Definition - What does Film-Induced Cleavage mean?


Film-induced cleavage is a mechanism of stress corrosion cracking (SCC). It is one of the most common
anodic mechanisms of SCC failure.
Cracks usually propagate by alternate film growth and (brittle) film fracture, followed by rapid film formation
over exposed metal.
Corrosionpedia explains Film-Induced Cleavage
In film-induced cleavage, there is no special property of the face-centered cubic substrate through which the
crack jumps; the special property lies in the film itself, which must be able to trigger a crack with a rate of
hundreds of meters per second within less than 100 nm.
In this mechanism, stress corrosion cracks initiated in a brittle surface film may propagate (over a microscopic
distance) into underlying more ductile material, before being arrested by ductile blunting of the crack tip. If the
brittle film reforms over the blunted crack tip (under the influence of corrosion processes), the process can be
repeated. The brittle films that are best-established as causing film-induced cleavage are de-alloyed layers
(such as in brass). The film-induced cleavage process normally causes a transgranular fracture.
The process of film-induced cleavage can be described as:
1.
2.

The walls and tip of the crack are covered by a brittle film (either an oxide film or a de-alloyed layer).
The film at the crack tip is ruptured by the plastic strain.

3.

The brittle crack moves from the film into the matrix.

4.

The crack is blunted by plastic strain.

5.

For the crack to grow further, the surface film must reform at the crack tip surface.

This cycle of crack propagation and blunting repeats itself, causing crack advancement.

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