To get a better understanding of corrosion cracking behaviour in copper and to prevent
such damage causes, it is necessary to collate laboratory results with SCC conditions during
operation. This requires possibly precise determining the parameters of both electrochemical
and mechanical processes that lead to service fracture of the copper
components. The former ones include temperature, solution chemistry, electrochemical
potential and the latter ones include state of stress (plane or uniaxial), level and type of
stresses (tensile or compressive stress) and their distribution on cross-sections of the damaged
components.