TY - GEN A1 - Unger, Wolfgang T1 - Tof-SIMS imaging of Deuterium in DSS steel microstructures and data fusion with SEM topography data: Towards a better understanding of hydrogen assisted cracking in steel N2 - The use of duplex stainless steels (DSS) in energy related applications is well known. Nowadays, DSS steels become more favorable than austenitic steels due to the outstanding mechanical properties, the good corrosion resistance and the lower nickel content. However, the use of the duplex grade in acidic environments such as seawater often leads to severe degradation of the structural integrity of the steel by hydrogen-induced/assisted cracking (HAC) phenomena, which can eventually result in premature failure. Hydrogen assisted degradation and cracking of steels are active fields of research even though this topic is intensively studied for more than a century. A bottleneck is the analytical validation of the theoretical models proposed ion the literature at the sub-micron scale. Industrial and the research communities see a need for an accurate analytical method by which it is possible to image the distribution of hydrogen in the microstructure of a steels or and other alloys. Among the very few available methods hydrogen imaging methods, Time-of-Flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) has the principal capability for mapping of hydrogen in a steel’s microstructure. The combination of ToF-SIMS with multivariate data analysis (MVA), electron microscopy (SEM) and electron-backscattered diffraction (EBSD) is a powerful approach for providing chemical and structural information. The use of data fusion techniques has been shown recently to enhance the better understanding of the hydrogen induced degradation processes in in a DSS steel. T2 - The Scientific International Symposium on SIMS and Related Techniques Based on Ion-Solid Interactions (SISS19) CY - Kyoto, Japan DA - 11.5.17 KW - Hydrogen KW - DSS steel KW - ToF SIMS KW - SEM KW - EDX KW - EBSD KW - Data fusion PY - 2017 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/40276 AN - OPUS4-40276 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany