CIDETEC Surface Engineering is the coordinator of the project and leader of two WPs.

CIDETEC will electrodeposit both LHE-Zn and LHE-Cd on different UHSSs, both in laboratory and pilot plant scales, under different conditions in order to produce and characterize a broad spectrum of morphologies with different hydrogen content and will support the other partners of the project with coated specimens to be characterized regarding hydrogen permeability and hydrogen embrittlement.

HEREON has a vast expertise on the development of new surface technologies for structural and bio materials, and the development of “predictive” modelling and simulation of service‐life aspects.

HEREON is responsible of the hydrogen effusion model implementation (WP3 leader) and material dependencies to cover 4 UHSS and 2 coatings. It will be also responsible to run system sensitivity analysis.

ELSYCA is a worldwide reference solutions provider to improve functional electroplating process performance by means of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) solutions. Its knowledge and expertise in electrochemistry and related CAE projects have been used, among other applications, in numerous analyses and optimization studies of Zn-Ni and Cd plating processes on landing gears parts.

In the framework of the H2Free Project, Elsyca brings its expertise in CAE modeling to develop robust and accurate modeling of the H-adsorption /effluence effects ultimately up-scaling the applicability of this model to industrial applications.

AZTERLAN adds to the consortium an extensive expertise in the study of HE and re-embrittlement, which covers a broad variety of UHSS compositions and production processes.

AZTERLAN participates actively in the project specifications definition and is responsible of UHSS tests specimens manufacturing and conducts the determination of the degassing kinetics and HE tests (proposing a fast method for HE characterization: SPT).

ELHCO is responsible of the validation of the recommendations and rules generated among the project at an industrial environment.

ELHCO has the experience and the technical knowledge to perform surface treatments for aerospace industry. They own NADCAP accreditation for Chemical Processing (CP) and AIRBUS qualification (they are one of the 13 qualified Zn-Ni suppliers all over the world).

MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EISENFORSCHUNG (MPIE) is a leading materials research institute with main focus on metallic alloys. Hydrogen in materials and HE are key research topics at MPIE. Special attention deserves its capabilities to perform hydrogen measurements with very high precision.

MPIE is the main responsible of hydrogen permeation tests and TDAto determine hydrogen trap distribution and specific diffusion coefficients and solubility, and kind of the different trap sites in the steels to provide accurate data for the H2 diffusion model.