The stressed state of a titanile shell operating in a medium with hydrogen

Improving reliability in the operation of equipment operating in a water-containing environment is associated with solving the problem of hydrogen embrittlement of metals. In the absence of a rigorous physical theory, it becomes necessary to predict the carrying capacity of various structures based on the available experimental data showing a decrease in the mechanical properties of materials in contact with hydrogen. In this paper, a solution is given to a physically nonlinear problem of determining stresses in a titanium shell. When integrating resolving equations, the method of SK Godunov's discrete orthogonalization is applied. Due to the fact that hydrogen most noticeably reduces the plastic properties of metals, the construction has revealed a dangerous point with a maximum intensity value of tangential stresses. The regularities of changes in the intensity of shear deformations at the dangerous point of the shell during an emergency pressure increase in the apparatus have been found. It is shown that an emergency pressure increase in the shell may lead to the appearance of plastic deformation zones, and the effect of hydrogen is manifested in the reduction of the breaking load. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd