@article{9c7758ffe29b40c79a5be02b662dade5,
title = "Hydrogen Embrittlement Understood",
abstract = "The connection between hydrogen-enhanced plasticity and the hydrogen-induced fracture mechanism and pathway is established through examination of the evolved microstructural state immediately beneath fracture surfaces including voids, “quasi-cleavage,” and intergranular surfaces. This leads to a new understanding of hydrogen embrittlement in which hydrogen-enhanced plasticity processes accelerate the evolution of the microstructure, which establishes not only local high concentrations of hydrogen but also a local stress state. Together, these factors establish the fracture mechanism and pathway.",
author = "Robertson, {Ian M.} and P. Sofronis and A. Nagao and Martin, {M. L.} and S. Wang and Gross, {D. W.} and Nygren, {K. E.}",
note = "Funding Information: This manuscript is the results of decades of work by many students and post-docs who were part of the Illinois group. They are too many to name but they know who they are; it was a pleasure to work with all of them. They will understand when this manuscript is dedicated to three of the team: Howard Birnbaum, Teizo Tabata, and Keith Tappin. The work would not have been possible without the support from the Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (Contract No. ACO9-76EROll98); Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (Grant GO15045); International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), sponsored by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), MEXT, Japan, and, finally, the National Science Foundation, through Award No. CMMI-1406462 (IMR). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and ASM International.",
year = "2015",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s11661-015-2836-1",
language = "English",
volume = "46",
pages = "2323--2341",
journal = "Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science",
issn = "1073-5623",
publisher = "Springer Boston",
number = "6",
}