Abstract: Stress Corrosion Cracking （SCC） is important in the corrosion problems, especially in industry and engineering, So more and more articles have been published in recent years concerning its possibie mechanisms, affecting factors,engineering failures and the methods to research. In this paper,a brief review is given mainly on the work of stress corrosion cracking in recent yeasr. Some researches on stainless steel and aluminium alloys are also induced.