Lattice strains due to hydrogen in metals
Lattice strains due to hydrogen in metals
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金属中氢引起的晶格应变
DOI:
10.1007/3540087052_42
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发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
H. Peisl
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作者:
H. Peisl
Hydrogen dissolves in many metals and occupies interstitial sites in the host lattice. In all known metal-hydrogen alloys the dissolved hydrogen expands the crystal lattice of the host metal. Each hydrogen interstitial causes displacements of the metal atoms from their regular sites, and the resulting crystal lattice distortions (described as strain or stress fields) give rise to a series of physical property changes which have attracted both fundamental and applied research activities.Many of the metals which dissolve large quantities of hydrogen are technological materials of present or future importance, lron, steel, Nb, Ta, V, and Pd and its alloys are such materials. Nb and V are possible candidates as construction materials in fusion reactors, and using hydrogen as an energy carrier depends on storage containers and transport lines. Typical relative volume expansions due to the solution of one hydrogen atom per metal atom are of the order of 20%. This fact could cause severe construction problems if such metals are used in a hydrogen environment owing to the drastic change in the dimensions of the construction materials. A variety of disordered and ordered phases are observed over the wide range of composition in which metal-hydrogen alloys exist (see [Ref. 3.1, Chap. 2]). As the lattice distortions depend on the hydrogen concentrations in the various phases, the formation of a different phase is connected with coherency stresses. The phase transitions may depend on the sample geometry due to these coherency stresses (Chap. 2). If the coherency stresses exceed the critical yield stress they are released by the formation of dislocations which themselves change the properties of the material. On an atomistic scale the hydrogen atoms interact via their distortion fields (" elastic interaction"). According to Alefeld [3.2], this elastic interaction is the relevant interaction for the c~-e'phase transition in the hydrogen-niobium and hydrogen-palladium system. An elastic interaction between the hydrogen atoms and impurities may also exist and influence the nucelation of a different phase. The elastic interaction of hydrogen with dislocations and internal (or external) stress fields, eg, close to a crack in the material, plays an important role in the most serious mechanical property change, the hydrogen embrittlement of metals (see [Ref. 3.1, Chap. 9]).