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arxiv: 2605.31560 · v1 · pith:2NYO2VE7new · submitted 2026-05-29 · 💻 cs.CE · cond-mat.mtrl-sci· physics.app-ph· physics.chem-ph

Can dents and gouges compromise the structural integrity of hydrogen transport pipelines?

R. Das , B. Bezensek , E. Mart\'inez-Pa\~neda This is my paper

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keywords hydrogen embrittlementpipeline integritydents and gougesmulti-trap hydrogen transportfinite-strain plasticitydamage modelingX65 steelstructural assessment
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The pith

Hydrogen does not significantly increase damage from dents and gouges in pipelines except when egress is fully blocked at the outer surface during internal pressurization of a passive dent with gouge.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper examines whether external defects such as dents and gouges threaten pipeline integrity when natural gas lines are repurposed for hydrogen transport. It introduces and validates an integrated model that links multi-trap hydrogen diffusion, finite-strain plasticity, and a damage law sensitive to both hydrogen concentration and stress triaxiality. Validation uses hydrogen permeation tests, full-scale pipe indentation, and mechanical tests on X65 steel across varying hydrogen levels and constraint. Application of the model to passive dents (formed before hydrogen exposure) and active dents (formed during exposure) shows that hydrogen rarely worsens damage severity. The exception arises only when hydrogen cannot leave the outer surface of an internally pressurized pipe that already contains a passive dent and gouge.

Core claim

The central claim is that hydrogen exposure does not significantly increase the damage severity of dents and gouges unless hydrogen egress is completely precluded at the outer surface of a pipeline that is being pressurised internally and contains a pre-existing passive dent with a gouge.

What carries the argument

An integrated model that couples multi-trap hydrogen transport, finite-strain plasticity, and a hydrogen- and triaxiality-dependent damage law.

If this is right

  • Most dents and gouges in hydrogen pipelines do not require extra mitigation beyond standard mechanical assessment.
  • Damage predictions for typical operating conditions can treat hydrogen effects as secondary.
  • The critical case is limited to sealed outer surfaces on pre-existing passive defects under internal pressure.
  • Model predictions rest on X65 steel behavior and can guide defect acceptance criteria for hydrogen service.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Operators might focus inspection on surface sealing rather than assuming broad hydrogen embrittlement risk at dents.
  • The model framework could be applied to assess whether coatings that permit egress reduce the exceptional case.
  • If the blocked-egress scenario proves common in the field, standards for pipeline repurposing could add surface-permeability requirements.
  • Extension to cyclic loading or different steel grades would test whether the limited hydrogen effect holds more broadly.

Load-bearing premise

The integrated model accurately reproduces the experimental response of X65 steel under the combined conditions of large plastic strain and hydrogen exposure that occur at dents and gouges.

What would settle it

A test in which a passive dent with gouge under internal pressure and blocked outer-surface egress shows no increase in damage, or in which the same defect shows large damage increase even when egress remains possible.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.31560 by B. Bezensek, E. Mart\'inez-Pa\~neda, R. Das.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Hydrogen diffusion and trapping; (a) Schematic of the energy landscape as a function of the lattice [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Comparison of the simulated and experimentally measured [ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Calibration of the hydrogen- and triaxiality-dependent damage law: (a) definition of the hydrogen [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Full-scale pipeline dent testing: experimental setup, including a magnified image of the dent profile after [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Full-scale pipeline dent testing: details of the numerical model, including (a) the geometry and configura [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Indentation of a hydrogen-free pipe at zero internal pressure: (a) Comparison of the load versus displace [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Indentation of a hydrogen-free pipe at zero internal pressure [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Scenarios and modelling stages considered during (a) active indentation of a H [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Hydrogen distribution in a gouge-free pipe carrying H [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Damage evolution during active indentation in gouged and gouge-free pipes containing H [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Analysis of the integrity of pipelines in the passive condition, where denting precedes H [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Contours of equivalent plastic strain εp and damage D as a function of the internal hydrogen pressure for a pipeline that has undergone denting prior to H2 exposure (i.e., passive denting), and for the cases of: (a) a pipeline containing a dent but no gouge, (b) a pipeline containing a dent and a gouge, and (c) a pipeline containing a dent and a gouge with an outer surface impermeable to hydrogen. 30 [PI… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Repurposing natural gas pipelines for hydrogen transport requires understanding how external defects, like dents and gouges, affect structural integrity under H$_2$ exposure. To address this, we combine experiments with a new hydrogen embrittlement model aimed at large plastic straining scenarios, which integrates: (i) multi-trap hydrogen transport, (ii) finite-strain plasticity, and (iii) a hydrogen- and triaxiality-dependent damage law. Each constituent of the model is validated with experiments on X65 pipeline steel: (i) hydrogen permeation, (ii) full-scale pipe-indentation, and (iii) mechanical testing at different hydrogen and triaxiality levels. The validated model is used to study \textit{passive} (indent before H$_2$ exposure) and \textit{active} (indent with H$_2$) dents and gouges. Results reveal that hydrogen does not significantly increase the damage severity of those defects, unless hydrogen egress is completely precluded at the outer surface of a pipeline that is being pressurised internally and contains a pre-existing \textit{passive} dent with a gouge.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

1 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper investigates the structural integrity impact of dents and gouges on pipelines repurposed for hydrogen transport in X65 steel. It introduces an integrated model combining (i) multi-trap hydrogen transport, (ii) finite-strain plasticity, and (iii) a hydrogen- and triaxiality-dependent damage law. Each constituent is validated separately via hydrogen permeation tests, full-scale pipe indentation experiments, and mechanical tests at varying hydrogen levels and triaxiality. The model is applied to passive (indent before H2) and active (indent with H2) defects, yielding the result that hydrogen does not significantly increase damage severity except when egress is completely blocked at the outer surface of an internally pressurized pipeline with a pre-existing passive dent containing a gouge.

Significance. If the result holds, the findings have substantial practical significance for hydrogen pipeline safety assessments, suggesting limited additional risk from hydrogen embrittlement for most dents and gouges and identifying one narrow critical scenario. The work is credited for its component-wise experimental validations across transport, plasticity, and damage, and for the clear distinction between passive and active defects. These elements strengthen the contribution if the coupled predictions can be further supported.

major comments (1)
  1. [Validation sections and results/discussion] The headline quantitative claim (abstract and final results section) that hydrogen 'does not significantly increase the damage severity' except under complete egress blockage rests on the coupled multi-trap transport + finite-strain plasticity + H/triaxiality damage model. However, validation remains component-wise only: permeation tests for transport, full-scale indentation for plasticity, and separate mechanical tests for the damage law. No experiment combines all three under the simultaneous high plastic strain, hydrogen exposure, and evolving triaxiality conditions at actual dents/gouges. This is load-bearing for the 'not significantly' assessment and requires either a combined benchmark or explicit uncertainty quantification on the coupling.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Model formulation] Clarify in the model description whether any parameters in the damage law or transport model are fitted to the same datasets used for the dent/gouge predictions, to address potential circularity concerns.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive review and for recognizing the practical significance of the work. The major comment concerns the strength of the headline claim given the component-wise nature of the validation. We address this below and outline revisions that will be incorporated.

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  1. Referee: [Validation sections and results/discussion] The headline quantitative claim (abstract and final results section) that hydrogen 'does not significantly increase the damage severity' except under complete egress blockage rests on the coupled multi-trap transport + finite-strain plasticity + H/triaxiality damage model. However, validation remains component-wise only: permeation tests for transport, full-scale indentation for plasticity, and separate mechanical tests for the damage law. No experiment combines all three under the simultaneous high plastic strain, hydrogen exposure, and evolving triaxiality conditions at actual dents/gouges. This is load-bearing for the 'not significantly' assessment and requires either a combined benchmark or explicit uncertainty quantification on the coupling.

    Authors: We agree that a single experiment simultaneously exercising multi-trap transport, finite-strain plasticity, and the triaxiality-dependent damage law under dent/gouge conditions would constitute the strongest possible validation. Such a combined benchmark is not available in the literature and would be technically demanding to execute safely at full scale with controlled hydrogen environments. Our approach follows the standard practice of validating each physics module against dedicated experiments before coupling, using constitutive relations whose forms are already established in the hydrogen-embrittlement literature. To directly address the referee’s concern, the revised manuscript will add an explicit uncertainty-quantification section. This will propagate parameter uncertainties obtained from the three separate validation campaigns through the coupled model and report confidence intervals on the predicted damage severity for the passive and active defect cases. The added analysis will quantify how robust the conclusion remains that hydrogen does not significantly worsen damage except under complete outer-surface egress blockage. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; component validations are independent of target predictions

full rationale

The paper calibrates and validates the three model constituents against distinct experimental datasets (permeation tests, full-scale indentation, and separate mechanical tests at varying H/triaxiality) that do not include the dents/gouges scenarios. The headline result is an extrapolation from the integrated model to passive/active dents and gouges, which are not part of the fitting data. No self-citations, self-definitional equations, or fitted parameters renamed as predictions appear in the provided text. The derivation chain therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review yields no identifiable free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the model is described only at the level of its three constituent modules.

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