{"title":"Study on hydrogen desorption behavior under elastic stress using cryogenic thermal desorption spectroscopy","authors":"Fenghua Lu , Hongzhou Lu , Wei Li","doi":"10.1016/j.matlet.2025.138855","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hydrogen-defect interactions behavior is critical to solving the hydrogen embrittlement (HE) problem. Exploring the hydrogen desorption behavior under elastic stress is essential for gaining insights into the HE mechanism. The thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS) technology is efficient for investigating the hydrogen diffusion and trapping behaviors. In this study, we introduced a cryogenic holder to minimize hydrogen diffusion during the vacuum process and employed cryogenic TDS to examine the effect of elastic stress on hydrogen desorption behavior in martensite and martensite-ferrite. Our findings reveal that elastic stress shifts the desorption peak in dual-phase steel, but cannot alter the trap activation energy, meanwhile, the desorption peak in martensite remains unchanged and the activation energy decreases. This indicates that different internal stress in the microstructure has different effects on hydrogen diffusion and trapping ability, shedding new light on the behavior of hydrogen in materials subjected to stress.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":384,"journal":{"name":"Materials Letters","volume":"397 ","pages":"Article 138855"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Materials Letters","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167577X25008845","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Hydrogen-defect interactions behavior is critical to solving the hydrogen embrittlement (HE) problem. Exploring the hydrogen desorption behavior under elastic stress is essential for gaining insights into the HE mechanism. The thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS) technology is efficient for investigating the hydrogen diffusion and trapping behaviors. In this study, we introduced a cryogenic holder to minimize hydrogen diffusion during the vacuum process and employed cryogenic TDS to examine the effect of elastic stress on hydrogen desorption behavior in martensite and martensite-ferrite. Our findings reveal that elastic stress shifts the desorption peak in dual-phase steel, but cannot alter the trap activation energy, meanwhile, the desorption peak in martensite remains unchanged and the activation energy decreases. This indicates that different internal stress in the microstructure has different effects on hydrogen diffusion and trapping ability, shedding new light on the behavior of hydrogen in materials subjected to stress.
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