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Effect of bainite in microstructure on hydrogen diffusion and trapping behavior of ferritic steel used for sour service application

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To clarify the effect of bainite in microstructure on hydrogen diffusion and trapping behavior and susceptibility to hydrogen assisted cracking of API grade linepipe steel, three specimens with different fraction of bainite in the microstructure are used. Firstly, hydrogen diffusion and trapping behaviors of the steels are studied by utilizing the electrochemical permeation technique. For fundamental analysis on the experimental data, a variety of diffusion parameters were determined by curve-fitting with a theoretical diffusion equation based on numerical finite difference method (FDM). It indicates that the steel with higher fraction of bainite exhibits much higher sub-surface hydrogen concentration and much lower apparent hydrogen diffusivity. This behavior can be understood by the fact that the steel containing higher fraction of bainite in the microstructure has higher concentration of reversible traps and consequent larger diffusible hydrogen, leading to much slower diffusion kinetics of hydrogen atoms. Consequently, the susceptibility to hydrogen induced cracking (HIC) and sulfide stress cracking (SSC) of the steel with higher fraction of bainite increases significantly.

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This paper was supported by Sunchon National University Research Fund in 2016.

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  1. POSCO Technical Research Laboratories, Pohang, 790-704, Republic of Korea

    Jin Ho Park

  2. Automotive Components & Materials R&D Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Gwangju, 61012, Republic of Korea

    Min-suk Oh

  3. Department of Advanced Materials Engineering, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, 540-742, Republic of Korea

    Sung Jin Kim

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Park, J.H., Oh, Ms. & Kim, S.J. Effect of bainite in microstructure on hydrogen diffusion and trapping behavior of ferritic steel used for sour service application. Journal of Materials Research 32, 1295–1303 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2016.480

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