TEM in situ tensile tests of 310 stainless steel show that a dislocation free zone (DFZ) forms if the displacement keeps constant after dislocations are emitted from a crack tip. The elastic DFZ is gradually thinned and the stress in the DFZ will reach the cohesive strength, resulting in nucleation of nanocracks in it and their bluntness into voids. If continuously tensioning, the inhomogeneously thinning ahead of the crack tip, initiat-ing and connecting of microcracks or microvoids will be observed rather than a DFZ, nanocracks' initiation and bluntness into voids. The inverse pile-up ahead of a loaded crack tip can move back to the crack tip when unloading

The difference betWeen the systems of CaO-SiO2-H2O and CaO-SiO2-Al(OH)3-H2O, was studied,especially the effect of Al3+ on the crystallinity of tobermorite was focussed. As a result, in the system of CaO-SiO2-H2O, tobermorite formed early, howevey, with reaction time forward, tobermorite was replaced by xonotlite. So far as CaO-SiO2-Al(OH)3-H2O was concemed, hydrothermal reaction was carried out under the same condition as CaO-SiO2-H2O to study the morphological changes of tobermorite crystals. It was found that Al3+ accelerated the crystal growth of tobermorite to some extent and was in favor of platy crystals. Moreover, with the Al3+ content increasing in the starting material, the morphology of tobermorite did not change magnificently, but platy crystals became more and more eminent. As soon as the Al2O3