Influence of electrochemical hydrogen charging on loss of plasticity and development of volumetric microdamaging of 60C2A steel

Keywords

medium carbon steel; electrochemical hydrogen charging, hydrogen concentration, static load, plasticity characteristics, dynamic load, fracture energy, volumetric damage.

Cite as

Dmytrakh І. М., Syrotyuk А. М., and Tsyrulnyk O. T. Influence of electrochemical hydrogen charging on loss of plasticity and development of volumetric microdamaging of 60S2A steel. Physicochemical Mechanics of Materials. 2024. 60(2), 043-049.

https://doi.org/10.15407/pcmm2024.02.043

Abstract

Medium-carbon 60S2A steel is sensitive to electrochemical hydrogen charging in aqueous solutions at room temperature, which leads to a significant loss of the material plastic cha­racteristics. According to the results of uniaxial tensile mechanical tests of cylindrical samples, it was found that when the concentration of hydrogen in steel changed in the range of 0.3–5.0 ppm, the relative elongation and relative area reduction decreased in approxima­tely three times. Under the impact loading, the development of volumetric microdamage of 60S2A steel was observed only when it was hydrogen-charged in the solutions with pH=1 and lower. The critical parameter of the material state is the energy E of the impact load under three-point bending of smooth beam samples, the decrease of which indicates an increase in the intensity of the hydrogen-induced damage. The existence of correlation dependence between the parameter E and the value of the concentration of residual (trapped) hydrogen C_H in the metal is shown. The obtained results can be used in the development of technological processes to increase the level of fragmentation of structural medium-carbon steels.

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