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Measurement of the hydrogen brittleness of structural materials

  • Phenomonology and Mechanism of Hydrogen Embrittlement of Metals and Alloys
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Soviet materials science : a transl. of Fiziko-khimicheskaya mekhanika materialov / Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Aims and scope

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    V. V. Panasyuk, S. E. Kovchik & G. I. Smoroda

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Translated from Fiziko-Khimicheskaya Mekhanika Materialov, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 5–17, May–June, 1979.

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Panasyuk, V.V., Kovchik, S.E. & Smoroda, G.I. Measurement of the hydrogen brittleness of structural materials. Mater Sci 15, 193–202 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00728929

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