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- Halilovic, Armin, et al.
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An experimental-numerical screening method for assessing environmentally assisted degradation in high strength steels
- 2021
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In: Engineering Fracture Mechanics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0013-7944 .- 1873-7315. ; 245
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this work, an experimental-numerical screening method for studying the elastic-plastic properties in high strength steel subjected to environmentally assisted degradation due to hydrogen is proposed. The experiments were performed on single-edge-notch bend specimens loaded with a monotonic constant displacement rate, and the specimens were electrochemically hydrogen pre-charged and/or in-situ. A systematic investigation was conducted of the influence of current density, pre-charging time and loading rate on the fracture mechanical properties. It was found that the loading rate had the greatest effect on the J-R curves, and that the environmental ductile-to-brittle transition region was obtained in a less than a day of experimental time. In this transition region it was found from the fractography that the dominating mode of failure changed from dimple to dominating intergranular fracture.
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