The development of in situ fracture toughness evaluation techniques in hydrogen environment

Wang, John Jy-An; Ren, Fei; Tan, Tin; Liu, Ken

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.11.147

Title: The development of in situ fracture toughness evaluation techniques in hydrogen environment

Abstract

Reliability of hydrogen pipelines and storage tanks is significantly influenced by the mechanical performance of the structural materials exposed in the hydrogen environment. Fracture behavior and fracture toughness are of specific interest since they are relevant to many catastrophic failures. However, many conventional fracture testing techniques are difficult to be realized under the presence of hydrogen. Thus it is desired to develop novel in situ techniques to study the fracture behavior of structural materials in hydrogen environments. In this study, special testing apparatus were designed to facilitate in situ fracture testing in H₂. A torsional fixture was developed to utilize an emerging fracture testing technique, Spiral Notch Torsion Test (SNTT). The design concepts will be discussed. Preliminary in situ testing results indicated that the exposure to H₂ significantly reduces the fracture toughness of 4340 high strength steels by up to 50 percent. Furthermore, SNTT tests conducted in air demonstrated a significant fracture toughness reduction in samples subject to simulated welding heat treatment using Gleeble, which illustrated the effect of welding on the fracture toughness of this material.

Authors:

^[1]; Ren, Fei ^[1]; Tan, Tin ^[1]; Liu, Ken ^[1]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science & Technology Division

Publication Date:: Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 EST 2014

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). High Temperature Materials Lab. (HTML)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE; Work for Others (WFO)

OSTI Identifier:: 1286757

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1556205

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 40; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0360-3199

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 08 HYDROGEN; spiral notch torsion test; fracture otughness; hydrogen embrittlement; high pressure hydrogen in-situ test

Citation Formats


                    Wang, John Jy-An, Ren, Fei, Tan, Tin, and Liu, Ken. The development of in situ fracture toughness evaluation techniques in hydrogen environment.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
Web.  doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.11.147.

Copy to clipboard


                    Wang, John Jy-An, Ren, Fei, Tan, Tin, & Liu, Ken. The development of in situ fracture toughness evaluation techniques in hydrogen environment.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.11.147

Copy to clipboard


                    Wang, John Jy-An, Ren, Fei, Tan, Tin, and Liu, Ken. Fri .  
"The development of in situ fracture toughness evaluation techniques in hydrogen environment".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.11.147.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1286757.

Copy to clipboard


                    
@article{osti_1286757,

  title        = {The development of in situ fracture toughness evaluation techniques in hydrogen environment},

  author       = {Wang, John Jy-An and Ren, Fei and Tan, Tin and Liu, Ken},

  abstractNote = {Reliability of hydrogen pipelines and storage tanks is significantly influenced by the mechanical performance of the structural materials exposed in the hydrogen environment. Fracture behavior and fracture toughness are of specific interest since they are relevant to many catastrophic failures. However, many conventional fracture testing techniques are difficult to be realized under the presence of hydrogen. Thus it is desired to develop novel in situ techniques to study the fracture behavior of structural materials in hydrogen environments. In this study, special testing apparatus were designed to facilitate in situ fracture testing in H2. A torsional fixture was developed to utilize an emerging fracture testing technique, Spiral Notch Torsion Test (SNTT). The design concepts will be discussed. Preliminary in situ testing results indicated that the exposure to H2 significantly reduces the fracture toughness of 4340 high strength steels by up to 50 percent. Furthermore, SNTT tests conducted in air demonstrated a significant fracture toughness reduction in samples subject to simulated welding heat treatment using Gleeble, which illustrated the effect of welding on the fracture toughness of this material.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.11.147},

  journal      = {International Journal of Hydrogen Energy},

  number       = 4,

  volume       = 40,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 EST 2014},

  month        = {Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 EST 2014}

}

Copy to clipboard

Journal Article:

Free Publicly Available Full Text

Accepted Manuscript (Publisher)

Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Publisher's Version of Record

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.11.147

Other availability

Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 26 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Export Metadata

Save to My Library

Works referenced in this record:

Using torsional bar testing to determine fracture toughness
journal, November 2000

Wang, J. A.; Liu, K. C.; McCabe, D. E.
Fatigue Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol. 23, Issue 11
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.2000.00352.x

A New Approach to Evaluate Fracture Toughness of Structural Materials
journal, November 2004

Wang, J. A.; Liu, K. C.
Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol. 126, Issue 4
DOI: 10.1115/1.1804202

An innovative technique for evaluating fracture toughness of graphite materials
journal, October 2008

Wang, Jy-An John; Liu, Ken C.
Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol. 381, Issue 1-2
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2008.07.034

Investigating fracture behavior of polymer and polymeric composite materials using spiral notch torsion test
journal, March 2013

Tan, Ting; Ren, Fei; Wang, John Jy-An
Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 101
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2012.07.007

Evaluation of Methods to Predict Safe Welding Conditions and Maximum HAZ Hardness in Steel Welding
journal, February 1995

Tronskar, J. P.
Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vol. 117, Issue 1
DOI: 10.1115/1.2826990

A new approach for evaluating thin film interface fracture toughness
journal, June 2006

Wang, Jy-An John; Wright, Ian G.; Lance, Michael J.
Materials Science and Engineering: A, Vol. 426, Issue 1-2
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2006.04.022

Literature Survey of Gaseous Hydrogen Effects on the Mechanical Properties of Carbon and Low Alloy Steels
journal, July 2009

Lam, P. S.; Sindelar, R. L.; Duncan, A. J.
Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol. 131, Issue 4
DOI: 10.1115/1.3141435

Works referencing / citing this record:

Deposition of Ni–NiO nanoparticles on the reduced graphene oxide filled polypyrrole: evaluation as cathode catalyst in microbial fuel cells
journal, January 2019

Pattanayak, Prasanta; Papiya, Farhan; kumar, Vikash
Sustainable Energy & Fuels, Vol. 3, Issue 7
DOI: 10.1039/c9se00055k

Similar Records in DOE PAGES and OSTI.GOV collections:

The development of in situ fracture toughness evaluation techniques in hydrogen environment

Conference Wang, Jy-An John ; Ren, Fei ; Tan, Ting ; ...

Fracture behavior and fracture toughness are of great interest regarding reliability of hydrogen pipelines and storage tanks, however, many conventional fracture testing techniques are difficult to be realized under the presence of hydrogen, in addition to the inherited specimen size effect. Thus it is desired to develop novel in situ fracture toughness evaluation techniques to study the fracture behavior of structural materials in hydrogen environments. In this study, a torsional fixture was developed to utilize an emerging fracture testing technique, Spiral Notch Torsion Test (SNTT). The in situ testing results indicated that the exposure to H2 significantly reduces the fracturemore »« less
Full Text Available
DEVELOPMENT OF IN SITU TECHNIQUES FOR TORSION AND TENSION TESTING IN HYDROGEN ENVIRONMENT

Conference Wang, Jy-An John ; Ren, Fei ; Zhang, Wei ; ...

Reliability of hydrogen storage tanks is significantly influenced by the mechanical performance of the container materials in the hydrogen environment. Fracture behavior and fracture toughness are of specific interest since they are relevant to many catastrophic failures. However, many conventional fracture testing techniques are difficult to be realized under the presence of hydrogen. Thus it is desired to develop novel in situ techniques to study the fracture behavior of structural materials in hydrogen environments. In this study, special testing apparatus were designed to facilitate in situ fracture testing in H2. In addition to a multi-notch tensile fixture, a torsional fixturemore »« less
Fracture Toughness Evaluation for Sandia Mock-up Stainless Steel Canister Weldment Using Spiral Notch Torsion Fracture Toughness Test

Technical Report Wang, Jy-An John

Many radioactive materials within the nuclear fuel cycle present a significant hazard. Such materials include spent nuclear fuel, high-level waste, legacy waste and other nuclear materials that have no current outlet than storage. These materials are often held in long-term storage as an interim stage within their lifecycle. Lifecycles can include reuse or disposal. Safety and security of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) interim storage installations are very important, due to a great concentration of fission products, actinides and activation products. Stress corrosion cracking of interim storage containers has been identified as a high priority data gap by the Department ofmore »« less
https://doi.org/10.2172/1502533

Full Text Available
Fracture Toughness Evaluation for Spent Nuclear Fuel Clad Systems Using Spiral Notch Torsion Fracture Toughness Test

Technical Report Wang, Jy-An John

Many radioactive materials within the nuclear fuel cycle present a significant hazard. Such materials include spent nuclear fuel, high-level waste, legacy waste and other nuclear materials. These materials are often held in long-term storage as an interim stage within their lifecycle, including reuse or disposal. Safety and security of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) interim storage installations and follow-on SNF transportations to its final repository sites are very important, due to a great concentration of fission products, actinides and activation products. Fracture mechanics approach in applying to SNF system reliability investigation, especially for the high burn up (HBU) SNF, during SNFmore »« less
https://doi.org/10.2172/1530074

Full Text Available
Fracture toughness evaluations for spent nuclear fuel dry storage canister welds and spent nuclear fuel clad-pellet structures

Technical Report Wang, Jy-An John ; Bevard, Bruce Balkcom ; Scaglione, John M. ; ...

Integrity of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) interim storage canisters is very important to the safety of the back-end nuclear fuel cycle. Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) potential of interim storage canister has been considered as a high priority. Because no post-weld heat treatment was required for forming these canisters, the high tensile residual stress existed within these canister welds. This can change the fracture resistance capacity significantly as well as increase SCC potential. Due to relative thin shell thickness of a canister weldment, the spiral notch torsion test (SNTT) method was used to estimate the canister weldment fracture toughness. SNTT was developed to measure the intrinsic fracture toughness of structural materials using small specimens. The SNTT method has been applied to a wide variety of structural materials, such as low-alloy steels, stainless steel, aluminum alloy, ceramics, concrete, and composites. The SNTT system operates by applying pure torsion to cylindrical specimens with a notch line that spirals around the specimen at a 45° pitch. In order to carry out pure torsion load mode, biaxial tension/torsion tester was developed accordingly to perform SNTT protocol. Moreover, applying fracture mechanics approach to SNF system reliability investigation is warranted due to the inherent flaws and hydride structures existed in a SNF system after nuclear reactor operation. However, none of the existing fracture toughness data deal with fuel cladding specific geometry or spent fuel material conditions, such as cladding structure with the pellet-inserts and the associated pellet clad mechanical interactions induced mixed-mode damage mechanisms. Thus, the development of an intrinsic fracture mechanics approach that is suitable for SNF materials is needed. Furthermore, due to thin wall and small dimension of clad tubing structure, the SNTT method was used to estimate the clad tubing structure fracture toughness. Fracture testing were performed on the received stainless steel canister weldment, most SNTT weld samples fracture initiation sites are at heat-affected zone (HAZ) regions. The estimated fracture toughness J_Q’ for the baseline SS304 steel is at 283 kJ/m². The estimated JQ’ for the SS304/308 weld and baseline metals are 148 kJ/m² and 459 kJ/m², respectively. Out of cell fracture testing for spent fuel structure were carried out on the surrogate rods made of Zr-4 clad and alumina inserts, the estimated fracture toughness values for baseline Zr-4 cladding with alumina-pellet inserts are: (1) For SNTT samples with a short or medium crack length, between 5.4-mm and 8-mm, the estimate J_IQ upon fracture initiation for the baseline Zr-4 cladding is at 50 kJ/m² with 2-sigma uncertainty of 3.26 kJ/m², and the associated K_IQ is at 67.46 MPamore »« less
https://doi.org/10.2172/1782033

Full Text Available

Similar Records

Title: The development of in situ fracture toughness evaluation techniques in hydrogen environment

Abstract

Citation Formats

Using torsional bar testing to determine fracture toughness journal, November 2000

A New Approach to Evaluate Fracture Toughness of Structural Materials journal, November 2004

An innovative technique for evaluating fracture toughness of graphite materials journal, October 2008

Investigating fracture behavior of polymer and polymeric composite materials using spiral notch torsion test journal, March 2013

Evaluation of Methods to Predict Safe Welding Conditions and Maximum HAZ Hardness in Steel Welding journal, February 1995

A new approach for evaluating thin film interface fracture toughness journal, June 2006

Literature Survey of Gaseous Hydrogen Effects on the Mechanical Properties of Carbon and Low Alloy Steels journal, July 2009

Deposition of Ni–NiO nanoparticles on the reduced graphene oxide filled polypyrrole: evaluation as cathode catalyst in microbial fuel cells journal, January 2019

Using torsional bar testing to determine fracture toughness
journal, November 2000

A New Approach to Evaluate Fracture Toughness of Structural Materials
journal, November 2004

An innovative technique for evaluating fracture toughness of graphite materials
journal, October 2008

Investigating fracture behavior of polymer and polymeric composite materials using spiral notch torsion test
journal, March 2013

Evaluation of Methods to Predict Safe Welding Conditions and Maximum HAZ Hardness in Steel Welding
journal, February 1995

A new approach for evaluating thin film interface fracture toughness
journal, June 2006

Literature Survey of Gaseous Hydrogen Effects on the Mechanical Properties of Carbon and Low Alloy Steels
journal, July 2009

Deposition of Ni–NiO nanoparticles on the reduced graphene oxide filled polypyrrole: evaluation as cathode catalyst in microbial fuel cells
journal, January 2019