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Thermomechanics of a metal hydride-based hydrogen tank

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In this paper, a thermodynamical model of a porous media made of one or two solid phases α and β (depending on the hydrogen concentration) and one gas phase H2 is presented. As an extension of previous works performed by Gondor and Lexcellent (Int J Hydrog Energy 34(14):5716–5725, doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.05.070, 2009), our attention is paid to the identification of the vectorial displacement and by consequence to the stress and strain states in every point of the tank. This study allows a safe design of the reservoir. In front of the complexity of the problem to solve, a synthesis and a table of unknowns, constants, and parameters will ease the reader understanding. The problem is restricted to the isotropic elastic behavior of the solid phases. A great ingredient of the investigation is the phase transformation between the two phases α and β.

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    Christian Lexcellent, Guillaume Gay & David Chapelle

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Lexcellent, C., Gay, G. & Chapelle, D. Thermomechanics of a metal hydride-based hydrogen tank. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. 27, 379–397 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-014-0356-7

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