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Hydrogen storage and transportation are the intermediate link of hydrogen production and the point of end-use. Standards for hydrogen storage and transportation published by ISO, CGA, NFPA, ASME, ANSI, SAC, CEN and JISC are reviewed and analysed in this paper. Numbers of standards for hydrogen embrittlement are more than the others. Standards for hydrogen piping and pipelines are only published by CGA and ASME. Chinese GB standards are mainly focused on general design and safety, gaseous hydrogen receptacles and hydrogen embrittlement. Standards for liquid hydrogen storage receptacles and safety, hydrogen piping and pipelines, and hydrogen transportation should be emphasized.

Safety standards are foundation for the deployment and development of hydrogen industry. In this paper, standards for hydrogen safety published by ISO, IEC and SAC are summarized and discussed. Standard framework of hydrogen safety is analysed. ISO standards are mainly focused on general safety standards and safety standards of hydrogen production. IEC standards are mainly focused on safety standards of fuel cell and fuel cell applications. China has basically established a safety standard framework for hydrogen industry. Safety standards for different stage of hydrogen industry are discussed and analysed. Suggestions of safety standards preparation for China are proposed.

Triple sheets of DP 600/A5052 aluminum alloy/DP 600 steel were joined by means of resistance spot welding in this study. The experimental results showed that the microstructure of fusion zone was lath martensite for DP 600 and column crystals for A5052. Their grains coarsened with increasing distance away from the base metals. The interface zone between DP 600 and A5052 was composed of continuous Fe2Al5 intermetallic compound (IMC) layer and needle-like Fe4Al13 IMC. When welding time prolonged from 8 cycles to 17 cycles, the average length of Fe4Al13 phase adjacent to A5052 shortened from 2.3 μm to 0.89 μm, whereas the thickness of Fe2Al5 IMC layer near DP 600 widened from 1.59 μm to 2.59 μm. The tensile-shear load of DP 600/A5052/DP 600 joints reached a maximum value of 10.796 kN with 14 cycles welding time. Failure during tensile-shear testing occurred along DP 600/A5052 interfaces because Fe2Al5 and Fe4Al13 were brittle phases, but an amount of tearing area was found on the fracture surface.