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Determination of hydrogen diffusion coefficients in metals by the method of low mechanical stresses

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The non-destructive method of small mechanical stresses (at the beginning of the elastic region) is used to study the dependence of elastic hysteresis amplitudes ωh on time t during the release of diffused hydrogen from the samples. The samples used for the study correspond to the known model of a thin rigid round plate, pinched over the contour. The hydrogen diffusion coefficients D for studied samples are determined on the basis of the Fick equation solutions and the time t0 after which the ωh amplitudes do not longer change. It is shown that the D coefficient of 1020 steel does not change for all hydrogenation cycles of unstressed and stressed samples and corresponds to the following pattern, characteristic of low-alloy steels: the higher the carbon content, the lower the D coefficient is. Since the method used is non-destructive, high-precision and relatively simple, it can serve as a good addition to the known methods for determining the diffusion of hydrogen in metals. The reasons of significant decrease in the elastic hysteresis amplitudes ωh after the several cycles of hydrogenation of non-strained samples and a significant increase in ωh after hydrogenation of strained samples are also discussed.

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Mytsyk, B., Hembara, O. & Shchepanskyi, P. Determination of hydrogen diffusion coefficients in metals by the method of low mechanical stresses. Arch Appl Mech 92, 3203–3213 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00419-022-02231-0

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