Success Story: Studying Hydrogen-Steel Interactions via Nanoindentation
This study introduces a new charging approach for nanoindentation to study how hydrogen affects steel. It avoids issues arising in conventional methods and uses X-ray diffraction to confirm hydrogen presence. The new method showed that hydrogen reversibly increased hardness in a ferritic steel and provides a platform for more stable and reliable measurements.
Studying Hydrogen-Steel Interactions via Nanoindentation