TY - CONF A1 - Böllinghaus, Thomas A1 - Mente, Tobias A1 - Dabah, Eitan ED - Kulkarni, D.V. ED - Samant, M. ED - Krishnan, S. ED - De, A. ED - Krishnan, J. ED - Patel, H. ED - Bhaduri, A.K. T1 - Trends in investigating hydrogen cracking and diffusion in steel welds N2 - The present contribution highlights recent trends in investigating hydrogen diffusion and cracking in steel welds. For such studies, supermartensitic stainless steels (SMSS) have exemplarily been selected. These materials have been used for offshore and marine constructions for about two decades now. They present a versatility of improved properties such as high strength to thickness ratio, good weldability and good corrosion resistance. However, as shown by respective failure cases, SMSS welds might become prone to hydrogen assisted cracking and the degradation phenomena are more easily to investigate due to the nearly homogeneous martensitic microstructure than in other materials. Generally, it has to be distinguished between cracking that occurs during or shortly after fabrication welding, or during subsequent operation of SMSS components. In order to achieve crack avoidance during fabrication and service, conclusive test sequences have to be applied, ranging from field tests at real components and full scale tests investigating the materials behavior under real service conditions to basic and small scale tests, such as tensile and corrosion tests, oriented more towards a materials ranking. Considerable testing of SMSS welds has been carried out and the present paper particularly summarizes spotlights on 1:1 scale component testing of welded tubulars, slow strain rate testing and basic tests oriented to elucidate the hydrogen behavior and degradation in SMSS weld microstructures. Also, permeation tests, hydrogen dependent degradation of mechanical properties and thermal desorption spectroscopy are adressed. As a specific item, first results of lately conducted investigations for tracking hydrogen movement in such weld microstructures by using high energy synchrotron radiation are elucidated. T2 - IIW International conference on global trends in joining, cutting and surfacing technology CY - Chennai, India DA - 21.07.2011 PY - 2011 SN - 978-81-8487-152-4 SP - 49 EP - 55 PB - Narosa Publ. House AN - OPUS4-26114 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dabah, Eitan A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas A1 - Mente, Tobias A1 - Beyer, Katrin A1 - Brauser, Stephan T1 - Quantification of hydrogen effective diffusion coefficients and effusion behavior in duplex stainless steel weld metals N2 - Modern methods like carrier gas hot extraction enable the quantification of dissolved hydrogen as well as the determination of the hydrogen trapping and diffusion behavior. This method was applied in order to compare for the first time the hydrogen diffusion and trapping behavior in electrochemically charged and welded duplex stainless steel (1.4462). Characteristic extraction temperatures (400, 650, and 900 °C) were used to quantify the amounts of diffusible hydrogen and trapped hydrogen for the base material and the weld metal, and in order to calculate the effective diffusion coefficients corresponding to the specific temperature. The comparison of the charging methods showed that electrochemically charged samples have a higher content of diffusible hydrogen than the welded samples. In addition, the effusion times increase in welded samples, which indicate a higher amount of trapped hydrogen. In electrochemically charged weld samples, a significant lower concentration of hydrogen was determined than in the base material. In addition, the effective diffusion coefficients were calculated for every microstructure and charging method. It was found that the base material has a higher effective hydrogen diffusion coefficient than that of the weld metal. This effect is due to the tortuous path of hydrogen diffusion in the weld metal. KW - Carrier gas hot extraction KW - Diffusion KW - Effusion KW - Hydrogen KW - Trapping PY - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40194-013-0051-5 SN - 0043-2288 SN - 1878-6669 VL - 57 IS - 4 SP - 561 EP - 567 PB - Springer CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-29417 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -