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- Title
Impact of the Delay Period between Electrochemical Hydrogen Charging and Tensile Testing on the Mechanical Properties of Mild Steel.
- Authors
Chaves, Igor A.; Richardson, Peter J.; Lynch, Sam; Allen, Jessica A.
- Abstract
With escalating global regulatory pressure for countries to adhere to emission laws, repurposing existing natural gas pipelines for hydrogen-based commodities stands to be an economical solution. However, the effects of hydrogen embrittlement must be thoroughly considered for this application to avoid the unexpected catastrophic failure of these pipelines. The literature proposes several physicochemical embrittlement models. This paper reports one aspect of hydrogen embrittlement that remains to be quantified: the recovery of ductility (embrittlement) of mild steel specimens subjected to artificially accelerated hydrogen absorption via electrochemical charging as a function of time. The effects of charging duration and particularly the delay period between charging and mechanical tensile testing were investigated. Unsurprisingly, longer charging time shows a greater loss of elongation; however, a more extensive recovery of ductility correlated with longer charging time in the first few days after charging. The data also show that while the uncharged mild steel met all minimum required values for strength and elongation for the specified grade, there was a substantial variability in the elongation to failure. The same trends in variability of elongation translated to the hydrogen-charged specimens. Due to this extensive variability, failure to meet the elongation specification of the grade is reported based on the worst-case scenario obtained for a given set of samples for each exposure condition. These results have practical implications for the monitoring and testing of infrastructure exposed to hydrogen, particularly as this relates to industry planned operational shutdown schedules.
- Subjects
MILD steel; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; TENSILE tests; MECHANICAL properties of metals; HYDROGEN absorption &; adsorption
- Publication
Corrosion & Materials Degradation, 2024, Vol 5, Issue 2, p265
- ISSN
2624-5558
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cmd5020011