Effect of diffusion coefficient variation on interrelation between hydrogen diffusion and induced internal stress in hydrogen storage alloys

In this paper, the effect of the stress and the diffusion coefficient variation with the concentration on hydrogen diffusion at low concentration was investigated using the finite element analysis. As a result, the variable diffusion coefficient model combined with the stress effect showed better agreement with the experimental result than Fick's diffusion models and the constant coefficient SID model. It was concluded that the effect should be considered even if the concentration is low.