Experimental Investigation of Hydrogen Embrittlement in Industrial Steels

Abstract

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and various other elements including chromium, nickel, manganese, vanadium, titanium, cobalt and tungsten. Steel is known for its high tensile and high fatigue strength and is employed hugely in buildings, weapons, and tool and automobile applications. In modern era, the production and consumption of steel has become a measure of a Nation‘s economic strength. Therefore the maintenance of steel and prevention from corrosion is a matter of worldwide concern. The chief corrosion method of steel is hydrogen embrittlement. Various experimental researches and theoretical investigations have been carried out to study about the mechanism of hydrogen embrittlement in industrial steels and its prevention.