Changes in the activation energy and the rate of hydrogen release from neutral media due to deformation

It is shown that plastic deformations of metals govern the kinetics of hydrogen release (by decreasing the work function of escape of an electron into solution) and are a controlling factor in the processes of hydrogenation and crack growth by a hydrogen mechanism.Karpenko Physicomechanical Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, L'viv. Translated from Fiziko-Khimicheskaya Mekhanika Materialov, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 16–22, November–December, 1993.