@article{LaquaiSchauppGriescheetal.2022,
  author    = {Laquai, Ren{\´e} and Schaupp, Thomas and Griesche, Axel and M{\"u}ller, Bernd R. and Kupsch, Andreas and Hannemann, Andreas and Kannengiesser, Thomas and Bruno, Giovanni},
  title     = {Quantitative analysis of hydrogen-assisted microcracking in duplex stainless steel through X-ray refraction 3D imaging},
  series = {Advanced engineering materials},
  volume    = {24},
  journal   = {Advanced engineering materials},
  number    = {6},
  publisher = {Wiley-VCH},
  address   = {Weinheim},
  issn      = {1527-2648},
  doi       = {10.1002/adem.202101287},
  pages     = {10},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {While the problem of the identification of mechanisms of hydrogen-assisted damage has and is being thoroughly studied, the quantitative analysis of such damage still lacks suitable tools. In fact, while, for instance, electron microscopy yields excellent characterization, the quantitative analysis of damage requires at the same time large field-of-views and high spatial resolution. Synchrotron X-ray refraction techniques do possess both features. Herein, it is shown how synchrotron X-ray refraction computed tomography (SXRCT) can quantify damage induced by hydrogen embrittlement in a lean duplex steel, yielding results that overperform even those achievable by synchrotron X-ray absorption computed tomography. As already reported in the literature, but this time using a nondestructive technique, it is shown that the hydrogen charge does not penetrate to the center of tensile specimens. By the comparison between virgin and hydrogen-charged specimens, it is deduced that cracks in the specimen bulk are due to the rolling process rather than hydrogen-assisted. It is shown that (micro)cracks propagate from the surface of tensile specimens to the interior with increasing applied strain, and it is deduced that a significant crack propagation can only be observed short before rupture.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{LaquaiGouraudMuelleretal.2019,
  author    = {Laquai, Rene and Gouraud, Fanny and M{\"u}ller, Bernd Randolf and Huger, Marc and Chotard, Thierry and Antou, Guy and Bruno, Giovanni},
  title     = {Evolution of Thermal Microcracking in Refractory ZrO2-SiO2 after Application of External Loads at High Temperatures},
  series = {Materials},
  volume    = {12},
  journal   = {Materials},
  number    = {7},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  address   = {Basel},
  issn      = {1996-1944},
  doi       = {10.3390/ma12071017},
  pages     = {15},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Zirconia-based cast refractories are widely used for glass furnace applications. Since they have to withstand harsh chemical as well as thermo-mechanical environments, internal stresses and microcracking are often present in such materials under operating conditions (sometimes in excess of 1700 °C). We studied the evolution of thermal (CTE) and mechanical (Young's modulus) properties as a function of temperature in a fused-cast refractory containing 94 wt.\% of monoclinic ZrO2 and 6 wt.\% of a silicate glassy phase. With the aid of X-ray refraction techniques (yielding the internal specific surface in materials), we also monitored the evolution of microcracking as a function of thermal cycles (crossing the martensitic phase transformation around 1000 °C) under externally applied stress. We found that external compressive stress leads to a strong decrease of the internal surface per unit volume, but a tensile load has a similar (though not so strong) effect. In agreement with existing literature on β-eucryptite microcracked ceramics, we could explain these phenomena by microcrack closure in the load direction in the compression case, and by microcrack propagation (rather than microcrack nucleation) under tensile conditions.},
  language  = {en}
}