TY - CONF A1 - Mente, Tobias T1 - Mesoscale Crack Model for Duplex Stainless Steels Microstructures T2 - IIW Annual Assembly CY - Denver, CO, USA DA - 2012-07-09 PY - 2012 AN - OPUS4-26165 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - 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 - GEN A1 - Münster, C. A1 - Mente, Tobias A1 - Rhode, Michael A1 - Böllinghaus, Thomas ED - Sommitsch, C. ED - Enzinger, N. ED - Mayr, P. T1 - Modelling of hydrogen diffusion in power station steels and influence of experimental conditions on the determination of diffusion coefficients N2 - In the field of modelling hydrogen assisted cracking (HAC) phenomenon, hydrogen diffusivity is an important input parameter for numerical simulation. In terms of hydrogen diffusion coefficients, they have great impact on realistic assessment of the evolution of possible crack critical hydrogen concentrations. In addition, the chemical compositions of steels can have a strong effect on hydrogen diffusion. Unfortunately, literature provides a wide range of available hydrogen diffusion coefficients even for similar microstructures and equal temperatures. The scattering of the data can lead to significant deviations in the results of simulating the evolving hydrogen concentrations due to hydrogen uptake (by fabrication or service). Thus, the application of such data to crack-models or for component life tie predictions can be realized up to the present only by considering envelope curves of such value, corresponding to a work or bench case scenario, respectively. For improved reliability of numerical simulaitons, it is necessary to minimize the mentioned deviation of these data. Hence, this work focuses on the validation of hydrogen diffusion coefficients obtained from permeation experiments at room temperature. Two baintic steels with different alloying concepts were investigated, the creep-resistant 7CrMoVTiB10-10 and the reactor pressure vessel grade 20MnMoNi4-5. A numerical model is presented for simulation of the corresponding hydrogen diffusion during permeation experiments using the finite element software ANSYS. Three different diffusion coefficients (obtained from different common calculation methods) are considered and compared to numerical results. The vases of thes calculation methods are permeation transients which are a direct measure for hydrogen. The results of the simulated hydrogen diffusion coefficients show that only one procedure for calculation of diffusion coefficitnes is suitable in comparision to the experimental values. Thus, it is suggested to use this method for analysis of experimental results in case of hydrogen diffusion during permeation experiments. Furthermore, this work supplies validated values for the hydrogen diffusion coefficients of both steel grades. KW - Hydrogen KW - Diffusion Coefficient KW - Numerical Simulation KW - Permeation KW - Creep-resistant Steel KW - Pressure Vessel Steel PY - 2016 SN - 978-3-85125-490-7 SN - 2410-0544 SP - 435 EP - 457 PB - Technische Universität Graz CY - Graz AN - OPUS4-38917 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -