TY - JOUR A1 - Griesche, Axel A1 - Dabah, Eitan A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas A1 - Kardjilov, N. A1 - Hilger, A. A1 - Manke, I. T1 - Three-dimensional imaging of hydrogen blister in iron with neutron tomography JF - Acta materialia N2 - We investigated hydrogen embrittlement and blistering in electrochemically hydrogen-charged technical iron samples at room temperature. Hydrogen-stimulated cracks and blisters and the corresponding hydrogen distributions were observed by neutron tomography. Cold neutrons were provided by the research reactor BER II to picture the sample with a spatial resolution in the reconstructed three-dimensional model of ~25 µm. We made the unique observation that cracks were filled with molecular hydrogen and that cracks were surrounded by a 50 µm wide zone with a high hydrogen concentration. The zone contains up to ten times more hydrogen than the bulk material. The hydrogen enriched zone can be ascribed to a region of increased local defect density. Hydrogen also accumulated at the sample surface having the highest concentration at blistered areas. The surfaces of the brittle fractured cracks showed micropores visualized by scanning electron microscopy. The micropores were located at grain boundaries and were surrounded by stress fields detected by electron backscattered diffraction. The cracks clearly originated from the micropores. KW - Hydrogen embrittlement KW - Hydrogen diffusion KW - In situ KW - Neutron tomography KW - Iron PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2014.06.034 SN - 1359-6454 SN - 1873-2453 VL - 78 SP - 14 EP - 22 PB - Elsevier Science CY - Kidlington AN - OPUS4-31068 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Dabah, Eitan A1 - Griesche, Axel A1 - Beyer, Katrin A1 - Solórzano, E. A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas ED - Kannengießer, Thomas ED - Babu, S. S. ED - Komizo, Y. ED - Ramirez, A.J. T1 - In situ measurements of hydrogen diffusion in duplex stainless steels by neutron radiography T2 - In-situ studies with photons, neutrons and electrons scattering II N2 - Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) is a widely known phenomenon and under investigation already for more than a century. This phenomenon, though thoroughly studied, is not yet completely understood, and so far, there are several suggested mechanisms that try to explain the occurrence of HE. One important factor of understanding the HE phenomenon and predicting hydrogen-assisted failure is the descent knowledge about the hydrogen transport behaviour in the material. Neutron radiography is a proven method for tracking hydrogen diffusion and it was applied successfully in various research studies. In the presented study, we examined the hydrogen effusion behaviour in duplex stainless steel by means of neutron radiography and calculated the effective diffusion coefficient from the obtained transmission images. KW - Neutron radiography KW - Hydrogen diffusion KW - Duplex stainless steels KW - Hydrogen embrittlement PY - 2014 SN - 978-3-319-06144-3 SN - 978-3-319-06145-0 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06145-0_9 SP - 155 EP - 163 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-31357 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Griesche, Axel A1 - Dabah, Eitan A1 - Kardjilov, N. A1 - Hilger, A. A1 - Manke, I. A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas T1 - Imaging of hydrogen in steels using neutrons JF - International journal of materials research N2 - We investigated the hydrogen distribution spatially and temporally in technical iron at room temperature. Samples were charged electrochemically and subsequently analysed by means of neutron radiography and tomography. The radiographic images allowed for a time-resolved analysis of hydrogen fluxes. The three-dimensional distribution of hydrogen measured by neutron tomography delivered valuable information for the damage analysis of hydrogen-induced cracks. For the first time hydrogen concentration gradients inside the material could be detect directly together with the cracks. The neutron radiography and tomography results were gained at the Research Reactor BER II of the HZB in Berlin. KW - Hydrogen embrittlement KW - Hydrogen diffusion KW - Neutron tomography KW - Blister PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.3139/146.111043 SN - 1862-5282 VL - 105 IS - 7 SP - 640 EP - 644 PB - Carl Hanser CY - München AN - OPUS4-31084 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dabah, Eitan A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas A1 - Eliezer, D. A1 - Böllinghaus, Thomas T1 - Hydrogen interaction with residual stresses in steel studied by synchrotron X-ray diffraction JF - Materials Science Forum N2 - The residual stress state in a material has an important role in the mechanism of cracking, induced or assisted by hydrogen. In this contribution, the beamline EDDI in BESSY II instrument in Berlin was used in order to investigate the influence of hydrogen upon the residual stresses state existing in a Supermartensitic stainless steel sample. The method used for investigating the residual stresses is the “sinus square ψ” method. This method involves the usage of high energy X-ray diffraction in order to measure the residual stress state and magnitude. It was found that hydrogen presence has a significant influence upon the magnitude of the residual stresses, as its value decreases with high hydrogen content. This effect is reversible, as hydrogen desorbs from the sample the residual stress magnitude gains its initial value before hydrogen charging. KW - Energy dispersive diffraction KW - Hydrogen embrittlement KW - Residual Stress KW - Supermartensitic Steel PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.772.91 SN - 0255-5476 VL - 772 SP - 91 EP - 95 PB - Trans Tech Publications CY - Aedermannsdorf, Switzerland AN - OPUS4-29673 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas A1 - Dabah, Eitan ED - Marquis, F. T1 - Energy dispersive synchrotron diffraction for in-situ analyses of hydrogen behavior in steels T2 - PRICM-8 - 8th Pacific rim international congress on advanced materials and processing N2 - The extent of hydrogen embrittlement phenomenon is dependent on the interaction of hydrogen with the material i.e. diffusion behavior, lattice distortions, phase transformations and residual stresses developments. For the better understanding of the hydrogen interaction with the metal, possibilities of performing in-situ observations of the mentioned factors has to be accomplished. The EDDI (Energy Dispersive Diffraction) beamline at the BESSY II facility in Berlin provides this possibility and was used in order to investigate the aspects of this phenomenon in in-situ scale. The energy dispersive method entails a synchrotron X-ray white beam with a wide energy range (20–120 keV) which allows a fixed position of the sample and the detector, and combined with the high photons flux it allows a very short measurement time for obtaining a full scale X-Ray Diffraction patterns. In this contribution, the successful usage of high energy X-rays, applied for the first time for hydrogen behavior observations, provided the ability for evaluating in-situ the hydrogen diffusion behavior and the hydrogen interaction with stresses fields in the material. Steel samples were charged with hydrogen and examined by Synchrotron radiation. Two different methods were used in this research; the first is diffusible hydrogen concentration evaluation extracted from the lattice distortions, i.e. changes of the lattice parameter. The second is calculation of the residual stresses present in the sample and the interaction of hydrogen with them, using the known sin2ψ method. T2 - PRICM-8 - 8th Pacific rim international congress on advanced materials and processing CY - Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA DA - 04.08.2013 KW - Hydrogen embrittlement KW - Energy dispersive diffraction KW - Hydrogen diffusion KW - Residual stresses PY - 2013 SP - 3481 EP - 3487 AN - OPUS4-28975 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -