| About this Abstract | 
   
    | Meeting | 2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition | 
   
    | Symposium | High Performance Steels | 
   
    | Presentation Title | Hydrogen Trapping and Hydrogen Embrittlement in Hybrid Steel Strengthened by Dual Precipitates | 
   
    | Author(s) | Hung-Wei  Yen, Chin-En  Chou, Yi-Hsuan  Sun, Steve Woei  Ooi, Ranming  Niu, Chao  Huang, Eason Yi-Sheng Chen, Julie M. Cairney | 
   
    | On-Site Speaker (Planned) | Hung-Wei  Yen | 
   
    | Abstract Scope | Hybrid steel, a new grade of strong steel developed by OVAKO, exhibits an extremely high hardness of HRC55 due to effects of precipitation strengthening from NiAl-B2 particles and V4C3 carbides under peak aging. The current work investigates hydrogen embrittlement and hydrogen trapping in the peak-aged hybrid steel. Our thermal desorption analyses show an extraordinary concentration of trapped hydrogen in this steel. Besides, the concentration of non-diffusible hydrogen is approximately 16 ppmw. This is explained by the trapping effects from dual precipitates. However, in slow-strain rate tensile tests, it is found that most non-diffusible hydrogen is harmful. This steel is exempted from embrittlement when the concentration of non-diffusible hydrogen is lower than 4.0 ppmw. In summary, some irreversibly trapped hydrogen at stress-free state could be active under some stressed states. Hydrogen, active under a stress, can cause hydrogen embrittlement in practice. | 
   
    | Proceedings Inclusion? | Planned: | 
 
    | Keywords | Other, Other, Other |