Comment on ‘A combined SIF and temperature model of delayed hydride cracking in zirconium materials’, by A.A. Shmakov et al.

Given the experimental facts related to delayed hydride cracking in zirconium alloys and the DHC models proposed so far, critical comments on “A combined SIF and temperature model of delayed hydride cracking in zirconium materials” by A.A. Shmakov were made, demonstrating that the authors’ DHC model is irrational.