Entry of hydrogen into metals from liquid phase II - Factors affecting hydrogen entry

Abstract

Environmental factors that affect the entry of hydrogen into materials are briefly summarized with respect to electrochemical reactions on electrode. Effects of promoters, particularly of H 2S, are reviewed concerned with their mechanism. The effects of localized corrosion, such as crevice corrosion and pitting corrosion, and atmospheric corrosion under wet/dry cycles on hydrogen entry are reviewed. Further, interactions between electrochemical reactions on the surface of electrode and plastic deformation, which appear on polarization during stressing, and vice versa, are noticed as phenomena that suggest some surface effects on internal dislocation dynamics.