Biography
Yaebi Hwang is a first-year DPhil student working on fatigue life prediction of hydrogen-related materials by analysing slip localisation in the early stages of fatigue cycles.
She obtained a BEng in Mechanical and Control Engineering in 2023 and an MEng in 2025, both from Handong Global University, South Korea. In her master’s thesis, she investigated hydrogen embrittlement in thermally degraded materials.
Research interests
Yaebi's research interests include:
- Hydrogen embrittlement
- High-resolution digital image correlation
- Hydrogen-assisted fatigue
- Microstructural characterization
Recent papers
[1] Hwang, Y., Park, H., Yun, H. S., Bae, K.-O., Baek, U. B., & Lee, J. (2025). Effects of sensitization on hydrogen embrittlement behavior in 304 stainless steel. Materials & Design, 260, 115130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2025.115130
[2] Yun, H. S., Hwang, Y., Lee, Y.-K., Lee, J., Baek, U. B., & Nahm, S. H. (2025). Effects of spinodal decomposition induced by thermal aging on the hydrogen embrittlement response of Fe-20Cr-5Al alloy. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 38, 4600–4611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2025.08.155
