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Hydrogen embrittlement

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Atomistic investigation of the influence of hydrogen on dislocation nucleation during nanoindentation in Ni and Pd

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Hydrogen–vacancy–dislocation interactions in α-Fe

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Atomistic simulations of the interactions between dislocations, hydrogen atoms, and vacancies are studied to assess the viability of a recently proposed mechanism for the formation of nanoscale voids in Fe-based steels in the presence of hydrogen. Quantum- ...

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Fracture toughness measurement in fused quartz using triangular chevron-notched micro-cantilevers

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We extend to flat surfaces the fracture toughness method presented in Acts Materialia vol. 86 (2015) p.385 and measure in this manner the fracture toughness of fused quartz. Tests give 0.67 +/- 0.01 MPa m(1/2) which agrees with earlier microscopic and macr ...

Elsevier2016

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Elsevier2016

Non-intrusive flow velocity measurements in pressurized pipe with orifice

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Nicolas Jean François Pascal Ghislain Adam

Orifices are hydraulic devices producing pressure drops or head losses in pipes ways. Flow velocity measurements at the upstream of orifices allow understanding the effect of given flow field on head losses, while downstream measurements provide informatio ...

2016

Very high cycle fatigue tests with quenched and self-tempered reinforcement steel bars

Eugen Brühwiler, Alain Nussbaumer, Marina Rocha Pinto Portela Nunes

Investigations on the fatigue strength of steel reinforcement bars (rebars) mainly involves fatigue tests with hot rolled (HR) and cold worked (CW) steels. However, in the last few decades, HR and CW rebars were replaced by quenched and selftempered (QST) ...

Springer Verlag2016

Illuminating the chemo-mechanics of hydrogen enhanced fatigue crack growth in aluminum alloys

Derek Warner, Kristopher Learion Baker

The presence of elemental hydrogen is known to accelerate fatigue crack growth in aluminum alloys. However, a direct link between experimental data and the governing atomistic mechanisms has remained elusive. Here we present a series of computational studi ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Closing the pressure gap in x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy by membrane hydrogenation

Comprehensive studies of gas-solid reactions require the in-situ interaction of the gas at a pressure beyond the operating pressure of ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The recent progress of near ambient pressure XPS allows to ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Dynamic fracture along bimaterial and heterogeneous interfaces

Fabian Barras

Using a spectral resolution of the elastodynamic boundary integral equations, this poster is presenting the effect of tougher heterogeneities along a planar fracture plane. A centered crack propagating along a 1-D heterogeneous interface under mixed-mode l ...

2015

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