Abstract
This work investigates the hydrogen embrittlement (HE) behavior of Nickel-201 alloy using experimental and numerical approaches. In experimentation, the effect of electrochemical hydrogen charging on the deformation behavior of tensile oligocrystals is investigated at different strain rates. Irrespective of the strain rate levels, all the hydrogen-charged tensile oligocrystals exhibited intergranular (IG) fracture exclusively along the random high-angle grain boundaries (RHAGBs). At the same time, no crack was observed along the coincident site lattice (CSL) Σ3 type grain boundaries. The absence of an interconnected grain boundary network, lower stress levels, and insensitivity of H-induced IG fracture to the strain rate levels of investigated FCC oligocrystals (with low lattice hydrogen diffusion coefficient) established the insignificance of dynamic H-redistribution toward HE. In numerical simulations, a crystal plasticity-phase field fracture finite element model simulates the macroscopic tensile response and corresponding microscopic fracture evolution behavior for hydrogen-free and hydrogen-charged tensile oligocrystals. The experimental results corroborated by numerical simulations, validate that the reduction in fracture energy of RHAGBs, induced by hydrogen segregation through thermodynamic equilibrium during hydrogen charging prior to deformation, is the dominating factor governing HE.
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