About this Abstract | 
  
   
    | Meeting | 
    2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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    | Symposium 
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    Environmentally Assisted Cracking: Theory and Practice
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    | Presentation Title | 
    Exploring the Nature of Passivation Film in Chloride Salt Solution Under Tensile Loading in a Non-equiatomic Metastable High Entropy Alloy | 
  
   
    | Author(s) | 
    Pranshul  Varshney, Nilesh  Kumar | 
  
   
    | On-Site Speaker (Planned) | 
    Nilesh  Kumar | 
  
   
    | Abstract Scope | 
    
The simultaneous presence of a tensile load, susceptible material, and corrosive environment leads to stress corrosion cracking (SCC). The nature of passivation film plays a vital role in the degradation of materials by SCC. This work focused on exploring the nature of passivation film evolved during SCC in a metastable high entropy alloy. It involved subjecting dog-bone-shaped tensile test specimens to a neutral salt solution at room temperature for 24 h under to two different loading conditions: (1) a constant uniaxial tensile load and (2) no load. The nature of the passivation film developed under both conditions was examined using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Both EIS and XPS results revealed that the properties and chemical make-up of passivation film evolved under SCC conditions differed from that developed under no load conditions. This work clarifies the role of tensile loads in the evolution of passivation films. | 
  
   
    | Proceedings Inclusion? | 
    Planned:  | 
  
 
    | Keywords | 
    Environmental Effects, High-Entropy Alloys, Characterization |