Modeling the Hydrogen Redistribution at the Grain Boundary of Misoriented Bicrystals in Austenite Stainless Steel
Hydrogen embrittlement, as one of the major concerns for austenitic stainless steel, is closely linked to the diffusion of hydrogen through the grain boundary of materials. The phenomenon is still not well understood yet, especially the full interaction between hydrogen diffusion and the misorientat...
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author | Yang, Fuqiang Yan, Tao Zhang, Wenjuan Zhang, Haibing Zhao, Lingyan |
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description | Hydrogen embrittlement, as one of the major concerns for austenitic stainless steel, is closely linked to the diffusion of hydrogen through the grain boundary of materials. The phenomenon is still not well understood yet, especially the full interaction between hydrogen diffusion and the misorientation of the grains. This work aimed at the development of a robust numerical strategy to model the full coupling of the hydrogen diffusion and the anisotropic behavior of crystals in 316 stainless steel. A constitutive model, which allows easy incorporation of crystal orientation, various loading conditions, and arbitrary model geometries, was established by using the finite element package ABAQUS. The study focuses on three different bicrystal models composed of misoriented crystals, and the results indicate that the redistribution of hydrogen is significant closely to the grain boundary, and the redistribution is driven by the hydrostatic pressure caused by the misorientation of two neighboring grains. A higher elastic modulus ratio along the tensile direction will lead to a higher hydrogen concentration difference in the two grains equidistant from the grain boundary. The hydrogen concentration shows a high value in the crystal along the direction with stiff elastic modulus. Moreover, there exists a large hydrogen concentration gradient in a narrow region very close to the grain boundary to balance the concentration difference of the neighboring grains. |
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spelling | pubmed-87802592022-01-22 Modeling the Hydrogen Redistribution at the Grain Boundary of Misoriented Bicrystals in Austenite Stainless Steel Yang, Fuqiang Yan, Tao Zhang, Wenjuan Zhang, Haibing Zhao, Lingyan Materials (Basel) Article Hydrogen embrittlement, as one of the major concerns for austenitic stainless steel, is closely linked to the diffusion of hydrogen through the grain boundary of materials. The phenomenon is still not well understood yet, especially the full interaction between hydrogen diffusion and the misorientation of the grains. This work aimed at the development of a robust numerical strategy to model the full coupling of the hydrogen diffusion and the anisotropic behavior of crystals in 316 stainless steel. A constitutive model, which allows easy incorporation of crystal orientation, various loading conditions, and arbitrary model geometries, was established by using the finite element package ABAQUS. The study focuses on three different bicrystal models composed of misoriented crystals, and the results indicate that the redistribution of hydrogen is significant closely to the grain boundary, and the redistribution is driven by the hydrostatic pressure caused by the misorientation of two neighboring grains. A higher elastic modulus ratio along the tensile direction will lead to a higher hydrogen concentration difference in the two grains equidistant from the grain boundary. The hydrogen concentration shows a high value in the crystal along the direction with stiff elastic modulus. Moreover, there exists a large hydrogen concentration gradient in a narrow region very close to the grain boundary to balance the concentration difference of the neighboring grains. MDPI 2022-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8780259/ /pubmed/35057197 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15020479 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Yang, Fuqiang Yan, Tao Zhang, Wenjuan Zhang, Haibing Zhao, Lingyan Modeling the Hydrogen Redistribution at the Grain Boundary of Misoriented Bicrystals in Austenite Stainless Steel |
title | Modeling the Hydrogen Redistribution at the Grain Boundary of Misoriented Bicrystals in Austenite Stainless Steel |
title_full | Modeling the Hydrogen Redistribution at the Grain Boundary of Misoriented Bicrystals in Austenite Stainless Steel |
title_fullStr | Modeling the Hydrogen Redistribution at the Grain Boundary of Misoriented Bicrystals in Austenite Stainless Steel |
title_full_unstemmed | Modeling the Hydrogen Redistribution at the Grain Boundary of Misoriented Bicrystals in Austenite Stainless Steel |
title_short | Modeling the Hydrogen Redistribution at the Grain Boundary of Misoriented Bicrystals in Austenite Stainless Steel |
title_sort | modeling the hydrogen redistribution at the grain boundary of misoriented bicrystals in austenite stainless steel |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8780259/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35057197 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15020479 |
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