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    Prediction of the Diffusible Hydrogen Concentration After Electrochemical Charging Utilizing Artificial Intelligence
    (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2025-09-01) Sivesoglu, Abdurrahman; Li, Yang; Bal, Burak
    The concentration of diffusible hydrogen in a material is of high importance as it helps to predict the hydrogen embrittlement effect in the material, and the amount of mechanical properties' degradation after reaching a critical concentration. Despite that, a simple experimental setup is not available to measure hydrogen concentration at service. In this paper, a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) model is developed using weight initialization, which can estimate the diffusible hydrogen concentration of Face-Centred-Cubic (FCC) metals after electrochemical charging. The input properties of the model include the electrochemical charging parameters of current density, temperature, and charging time as well as the grain size of the specimen. The MLP model with and without the weight initialization was validated and tested with unseen test dataset. The model in both cases showed an excellent predictive performance with a higher accuracy and faster convergence when using weight initialization. A linear correlation of 89% between the experimental and predicted hydrogen concentration was observed. This demonstrates that for the family of FCC metals under electrochemical charging, the estimation of diffusible hydrogen concentration is a feasible path for material safety design analysis.
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    Citation - WoS: 13
    Citation - Scopus: 14
    The Effect of Strain Rate on the Hydrogen Embrittlement Susceptibility of Aluminum 7075
    (ASME, 2022-11-22) Baltacioglu, Mehmet Furkan; Cetin, Baris; Bal, Burak
    The effects of changing the strain rate regime from quasi-static to medium on hydrogen susceptibility of aluminum (Al) 7075 were investigated using tensile tests. Strain rates were selected as 1 s(-1) and 10(-3) s(-1) and tensile tests were conducted on both hydrogen uncharged and hydrogen charged specimens at room temperature. Electrochemical hydrogen charging method was utilized and the diffusion length of hydrogen inside Al 7075 was modeled. Material characterizations were carried out by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and microstructural observations of hydrogen uncharged and hydrogen charged specimens were performed by scanning electron microscope (SEM). As opposed to earlier studies, hydrogen embrittlement (HE) was more pronounced at high strain rate cases. Moreover, hydrogen enhanced localized plasticity (HELP) was the more dominant hydrogen embrittlement mechanism at slower strain rate but coexistence of hydrogen enhanced localized plasticity and hydrogen enhanced decohesion was observed at a medium strain rate. Overall, the current findings shed light on the complicated hydrogen embrittlement behavior of Al 7075 and constitute an efficient guideline for the usage of Al 7075 that can be subject to different strain rate loadings in service.
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    Hydrogen Susceptibility of Al 5083 Under Ultra-High Strain Rate Ballistic Loading
    (Walter de Gruyter Gmbh, 2024-09-25) Baltacioglu, Mehmet Furkan; Mozafari, Farzin; Aydin, Murat; Cetin, Baris; Oktan, Aynur Didem; Teoman, Atanur; Bal, Burak
    The effect of hydrogen on the ballistic performance of aluminum (Al) 5083H131 was examined both experimentally and numerically in this study. Ballistics tests were conducted at a 30 degrees obliquity in accordance with the ballistic test standard MIL-DTL-46027 K. The strike velocities of projectiles were ranged from 240 m s-1 to 500 m s-1 level in the room temperature. Electrochemical hydrogen charging method was utilized to introduce hydrogen into material. Chemical composition of material was analyzed using energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis. Instant camera pictures were captured using high-speed camera to compare H-uncharged and H-charged specimen ballistics tests. The volume loss in partially penetrated specimens were assessed using the 3D laser scanning method. Microstructural examinations were conducted utilizing scanning electron microscopy (SEM). It was observed that with the increased deformation rate, the dominance of the HEDE mechanism over HELP became evident. Furthermore, the experimental findings were corroborated through numerical methods employing finite element analysis (FEM) along with the Johnson-Cook plasticity model and failure criteria. Inverse optimization technique was employed to implement and fine-tune the Johnson-Cook parameters for H-charged conditions. Upon comparing the experimental and numerical outcomes, a high degree of consistency was observed, indicating the effective performance of the model.
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    Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Simulation-Based Investigations on Hydrogen Embrittlement Behavior of Chromium Electroplated 4340 Steel
    (ASME, 2021-06-17) Dogan, Ozge; Kapci, Mehmet Fazil; Esat, Volkan; Bal, Burak
    In this study, chromium electroplating process, corresponding hydrogen embrittlement, and the effects of baking on hydrogen diffusion are investigated. Three types of materials in the form of Raw 4340 steel, Chromium electroplated 4340 steel, and Chromium electroplated and baked 4340 steel are used in order to shed light on the aforementioned processes. Mechanical and microstructural analyses are carried out to observe the effects of hydrogen diffusion. Mechanical analyses show that the tensile strength and hardness of the specimens deteriorate after the chrome-electroplating process due to the presence of atomic hydrogen. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses are carried out for material characterization. Microstructural analyses reveal that hydrogen enters into the material with chromium electroplating process, and baking after chromium electroplating process is an effective way to prevent hydrogen embrittlement. Additionally, the effects of hydrogen on the tensile response of alpha-Fe-based microstructure with a similar chemical composition of alloying elements are simulated through molecular dynamics (MD) method.
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    Citation - WoS: 12
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    Edge Dislocation Depinning From Hydrogen Atmosphere in Α-Iron
    (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2024-07) Kapci, Mehmet Fazil; Yu, Ping; Marian, Jaime; Liu, Guisen; Shen, Yao; Li, Yang; Bal, Burak
    Understanding the dislocation motion in hydrogen atmosphere is essential for revealing the hydrogen-related degradation in metallic materials. Atomic simulations were adopted to investigate the interaction between dislocations and hydrogen atoms, where the realistic hydrogen distribution in the vicinity of the dislocation core was emulated from the Grand Canonical Monte Carlo computations. The depinning of edge dislocations in alpha-Fe at different temperatures and hydrogen concentrations was then studied using Molecular Dynamics simulations. The results revealed that an increase in bulk hydrogen concentration increases the flow stress due to the pinning effect of solute hydrogen. The depinning stress was found to decrease due to the thermal activation of the edge dislocation at higher temperatures. In addition, prediction of the obtained results was performed by an elastic model that can correlate the bulk hydrogen concentration to depinning stress.