Which mechanism explains accelerated material corrosion at stress concentrators?

💡 Explanation

Increased stress enhances corrosion rates because grain boundary migration (specifically grain boundary diffusion) raises local chemical potential at the atomic level. Therefore, grain interfaces corrode faster, rather than homogenous phase change or bulk reactivity increases.

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