Hydrogen Gas Embrittlement: Mechanisms, Mechanics, and Design enables readers to understand complicated hydrogen-material interactions and conduct better material selection and strength design for hydrogen components. The book reviews the fundamental mechanisms of hydrogen embrittlement, the various behaviors of hydrogen in metallic materials such as diffusion, solution, and trapping, and emphasizes the necessary properties for effective strength design of various materials under the influence of hydrogen, including tensile properties, fatigue life, fatigue limit, fatigue crack-growth, and fracture toughness.
Sections provide experimental data obtained in hydrogen gas at various pressures and temperatures together with the fractographic observations, including practical interpretation of hydrogen compatibility of materials based on tensile, fatigue and fracture mechanics testing results. Material testing machines and methods, the effects of hydrogen on various BCC steels, austenitic steels, and non-ferrous metals, and practical applications and methods of strength design for hydrogen vessels and components are all included as well.
Matsunaga, Hisao: - Hisao Matsunaga is Professor of Hydrogen Utilization Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan where he is also Director of the Research Center for Hydrogen Industrial Use and Storage. His research focuses on the study of the influence of hydrogen on strength properties of metallic materials and development of methods of materials selection and strength design. He is a member of the Japan Welding Society, The Society of Materials Science, Japan, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has authored over 120 peer-reviewed papers that have published in a variety of high impact journals.
Matsuoka, Saburo: - Saburo Matsuoka is Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University. He has authored over 300 peer-reviewed papers that have published in a variety of high impact journals.
Ogawa, Yuhei: - Yuhei Ogawa is Assistant Professor, Kyushu University, where he is also a member of the Research Center for Hydrogen Industrial Use and Storage. His research focuses on strength properties of metals in high pressure gaseous hydrogen environments and improvement of fatigue strength by surface modification. He is the author of dozens of papers and co-author of a chapter in a recent handbook.
Takakuwa, Osamu: - Osamu Takakuwa is Associate Professor, Kyushu University, where he is also a member of the Research Center for Hydrogen Industrial Use and Storage. His research focuses on strength properties of metals in high pressure gaseous hydrogen environments and improvement of fatigue strength by surface modification. He is the author of dozens of papers and co-authored a chapter in a recent handbook.
Yamabe, Junichiro: - Junichira Yamabe is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Fukuoka University, Japan. His areas of research include hydrogen embrittlement, strength of materials, and surface modification. He received the 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Award for the International Journal of Hydrogen, and is a member of the Canadian Standards Association, The Society of Rubber Science and Technology, Japan, The Society of Materials Science, Japan, and the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers that have published in a variety of high impact journals.
