Evidence on the corrosion-induced hydrogen embrittlement of the 2024 aluminium alloy

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 565-574

  Petroyiannis, P V ^a   Kamoutsi, E ^b   Kermanidis, Al Th ^a   Pantelakis, S G ^a   Bontozoglou, V ^b   Haidemenopoulos, G N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

2024 aluminium alloy; Corrosion induced hydrogen embrittlement; Fractographic analysis; Metallographic investigation; Precorrosion exposure; Tensile tests

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CORROSION; ALUMINUM METALLOGRAPHY; DUCTILE FRACTURE; DUCTILITY; FRACTOGRAPHY; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRESS; TENSILE TESTING;

CORROSION INDUCED HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT; INTERGRANULAR FRACTURE; PRECORROSION EXPOSURE; TENSILE DUCTILITY;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 19044394707     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2005.00900.x     Document Type: Article

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