کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1280267 | 1497599 | 2010 | 10 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
Seventeen metastable austenitic stainless steels (type 304 and 316 alloys) were tested in tension both with internal hydrogen and in external hydrogen. Hydrogen-assisted fracture in both environments is a competition between hydrogen-affected ductile overload and hydrogen-assisted crack propagation. In general, hydrogen localizes the fracture process, which results in crack propagation of particularly susceptible materials at an apparent engineering stress that is less than the tensile strength of the material. Hydrogen-assisted crack propagation in this class of alloys becomes more prevalent at lower nickel content and lower temperature. In addition, for the tests in this study, external hydrogen reduces tensile ductility more than internal hydrogen. External hydrogen promotes crack initiation and propagation at the surface, while with internal hydrogen surface cracking is largely absent, thus preempting hydrogen-assisted crack propagation from the surface. This is not a general result, however, because the reduction of ductility with internal and external hydrogen depends on the specifics of the testing conditions that are compared (e.g., hydrogen gas pressure); in addition, internal hydrogen can promote the formation of internal cracks, which can propagate similar to surface cracks.
Journal: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy - Volume 35, Issue 18, September 2010, Pages 9736–9745