Cracking thermodynamics

Ue is the elastic energy. Us is the surface energy and Wl is the mechanical energy of the body or, alternatively, the amount of work done by the applied loads. A decrease in strain energy results from the formation of a crack. Thermodynamic equilibrium is reached when ... 

To make the flaw grow, say by 1 mm, we have to tear the rubber to create 1 mm of new crack surface, and this consumes energy the tear energy of the rubber per unit area X the area of surface torn. If the work done by the gas pressure inside the balloon, plus the release of elastic energy from the membrane itself, is less than this energy the tearing simply cannot take place - it would infringe the laws of thermodynamics. 

The energy release rate (G) represents adherence and is attributed to a multiplicative combination of interfacial and bulk effects. The interface contributions to the overall adherence are captured by the adhesion energy (Go), which is assumed to be rate-independent and equal to the thermodynamic work of adhesion (IVa)-Additional dissipation occurring within the elastomer is contained in the bulk viscoelastic loss function 0, which is dependent on the crack growth velocity (v) and on temperature (T). The function 0 is therefore substrate surface independent, but test geometry dependent. 

However, it was found that the effect on the equilibrium formation of aromatics is not substantial due to thermodynamic considerations. A more favorable effect was found for the reaction between ethylene (formed via cracking during aromatization of propane) and hydrogen. The reverse shift reaction consumes hydrogen and decreases the chances for the reduction of ethylene to ethane byproduct. 

Some Thermodynamic Data for Idealized Reactions of Importance in Catalytic Cracking... 

The rate (or kinetics) and form of a corrosion reaction will be affected by a variety of factors associated with the metal and the metal surface (which can range from a planar outer surface to the surface within pits or fine cracks), and the environment. Thus heterogeneities in a metal (see Section 1.3) may have a marked effect on the kinetics of a reaction without affecting the thermodynamics of the system there is no reason to believe that a perfect single crystal of pure zinc completely free from lattic defects (a hypothetical concept) would not corrode when immersed in hydrochloric acid, but it would probably corrode at a significantly slower rate than polycrystalline pure zinc, although there is no thermodynamic difference between these two forms of zinc. Furthermore, although heavy metal impurities in zinc will affect the rate of reaction they cannot alter the final position of equilibrium. 

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As a result of this additional work to create a surface over and above the thermodynamic surface energy assumed by Griffith, we need to rewrite his equation for the relationship between breaking stress and crack length. We modify equation (7.2) to ... 

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The thermal cracking of propane is practiced industrially for the primary purpose of making ethylene and propylene, but other reactions also occur. A scheme worked out by Sundaram Froment (Chem Eng Sci 32 601, 1977) consists of the nine reactions of the table. Equilibrium constants were deduced from thermodynamic data and the other constants by nonlinear regression from the extensive data on this topic in the literature and laboratory. 

Dicyclopentadiene is the Diels-Alder reaction dimer of cyclopentadiene. It is the thermodynamically stable form of cyclopentadiene at room temperature, and is also a byproduct in the olefin cracking process. Industrially, it is isolated by distillation, and currently is readily available in North America. 

When a 60 MW turbine at Hinkley A power station disintegrated in 1969 from stress corrosion cracking of a low pressure turbine disc (consequences shown in Plate 1) it was considered that Na H solutions were most probably involved (84) and it was soon found that if NaOH were the sole electrolyte present its maximum concentration (based on vapour pressure depression) was sufficient to have caused the cracking. However, it was also found that in mixtures it was only the free NaOH which led to rapid stress corrosion cracking. Considerations of acid gas solubility and solution thermodynamics showed that at the CO2 and acetate levels present it was most unlikely that free NaOH was present in sufficient quantity to be responsible for the Hinkley failure (85). 

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