TY - JOUR A1 - Seifert, Lando A1 - Grunewald, Andreas A1 - Müller, Thoralf A1 - Ebell, Gino T1 - Stress corrosion tests for prestressing steels—Part 1: The influence of surface condition and test solution composition on hydrogen charging T2 - Materials and Corrosion N2 - Tests for assessing prestressing steels' susceptibility to hydrogen‐induced stress corrosion cracking are essential for approvals, in‐house monitoring, and third‐party material testing. According to ISO 15630‐3, the time to brittle fracture by constant load under corrosive conditions in thiocyanate test solutions (A or B) at 50°C is measured. In the literature, a high scattering in stress corrosion tests is reported, which questions the integrity of the test procedure. This paper shows the results of studies about the influence of solution composition on hydrogen charging in electrochemical and permeation measurements. Electrochemical experiments show that polished steel surfaces without common drawing layers have more consistent free corrosion currents, polarization resistances, and B‐values in solution A with low scattering compared to the solution B experiments. The influence of temperature at 50°C and an ambient temperature of 22°C was also tested. PB - Wiley‐VCH GmbH KW - Drawing layers KW - Hydrogen‐induced stress corrosion cracking KW - Permeation measurements KW - Prestressing steels KW - Stress corrosion tests KW - Surface conditions KW - Test solutions PY - 2024 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/59873 AN - OPUS4-59873 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-598738 SP - 1 EP - 13 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany