– Liquidation Crack

• Its also knows as hot tearing, occurs in the heat affected zone when the
temperature in that region reaches to the melting temperature of low melting
point consitutents causing them to liquidate and segregate at grain boundaries

• As the weld cools down, shrinkage stresses causes the formation of small micro-
scale cracks which later might link up due to applied stresses to form a
continuous surface or subsurface crack