The effect of dissolved hydrogen on the stress corrosion cracking initiation and short crack growth behaviour of Alloy 182 weld metal was evaluated in 274 °C hydrogenated high-purity water using accelerated crack initiation and growth tests with sharply notched fracture mechanics specimens and in-situ crack initiation and growth monitoring. A maximum in initiation susceptibility and crack growth rates was observed at the Ni/NiO phase transition line. Grain boundary misorientations and mismatch in Schmid factor were measured by electron backscattered diffraction along intergranular stress corrosion cracks and at crack initiation sites. Low angle boundaries seem to be particularly resistant to cracking.
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