1956 Volume 20 Issue 5 Pages 294-295
Ammonia stress-cracking tests upon slowly solidified coarse-grained 70 Cu-Zn brass were carried out. At first, fine parallel cracks {111} or {110} appear, next, the cracking direction is changed transverse to the stress direction, finally, fine parallels connecting together as if they were single cracks appear transverse to the stress direction.