Elastic Modulus and Nanohardness of Non-Work-Hardened Palladium Hydride
M. V. Goltsova1, E. N. Lyubimenko2, G. N. Tolmacheva3, G. I. Zhirov1
1Belarusian National Technical University, 65 Nezavisimosti Ave., 220013, Minsk, Republic of Belarus
2Donetsk National Technical University, 2 Shybankov Sqr., UA-85300 Pokrovs’k, Ukraine
3National Science Center Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, NAS of Ukraine, 1 Akademicheskaya Str., 61108 Kharkov, Ukraine
Received: 15.03.2015; final version - 12.05.2015. Download: PDF
Using a nanoindentation technique with Nano Indenter G200 equipment, nanohardness and elastic modulus of cold-hardened palladium, annealed one, and palladium saturated with hydrogen are investigated. Saturation with hydrogen is carried out in the original hydrogen—vacuum apparatus HVD-3, ‘bypassing’ the two-phase state cupola to prevent decomposition of the solid solution of hydrogen within the palladium. As found, the nanohardness of annealed low-defect β-palladium hydride is by 30% less than that of annealed palladium (0.842 GPa). There is a tendency to lowering the elastic modulus of palladium hydrogenated by the means of ‘bypassing’ the two-phase region cupola as compared to annealed palladium. Additional X-ray analysis results allow concluding that differences in values of elastic moduli of β-PdHx samples tested after 12 and 36 hours of in-air exposure can be explained by the process of rearrangement of hydrogen within the samples, not by hydrogen degassing.
Key words: nanoindenting, palladium hydride, elastic modulus.
URL: http://mfint.imp.kiev.ua/en/abstract/v37/i08/1135.html
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/mfint.37.08.1135
PACS: 06.60.Ei, 62.20.de, 62.20.fk, 62.20.Qp, 62.25.Mn, 68.35.bd, 81.40.Ef
Citation: M. V. Goltsova, E. N. Lyubimenko, G. N. Tolmacheva, and G. I. Zhirov, Elastic Modulus and Nanohardness of Non-Work-Hardened Palladium Hydride, Metallofiz. Noveishie Tekhnol., 37, No. 8: 1135—1146 (2015) (in Russian)