- Aluminium is light weight.
- Weight savings equate to higher speed
- Aluminium has high corrosion resistance in marine environment.
- Aluminium has a good strength to weight ratio.
- Aluminium is available in sheets, plates, and complex extruded shapes.
- Aluminium has low density, combined with high toughness.
Hydrogen embrittlement is an undesirable process resulting loss of ductility of metal, decrease of the toughness and reduction of load-bearing capability occurs due to the absorption of hydrogen atoms by the metal. So that there is crack formation in metal component and fracture at lower stresses conditions. There are mainly two types of Hydrogen embrittlement. The first one is internal hydrogen embrittlement, It occurs when the hydrogen dissolved in molten metal which becomes supersaturated with hydrogen immediately after solidification. And the second type is environmental hydrogen embrittlement, which results from by hydrogen absorption by the solid metal. This condition can occur during high-temperature thermal treatment & during electroplating, during corrosion reactions, during cathodic protection, operating hydrogen in high-pressure conditions etc.
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