metal corrosion
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- Corrosion is a crucial worldwide problem that strongly affects metals.
- Inclusions in steels and alloys are known to lower the resistance to deformation, as well as to lower the mechanical, corrosion and other properties.
- Usage of pure tin (Sn) or Sn-rich alloy in electronics industry is growing, which makes them more susceptible to the spontaneous growth of tin whiskers.
- DH36 steel suffers corrosion problems in the seawater full immersion zone.
- Chromium plating has excellent corrosion resistance and is widely used in industry.
- Under the influence of environmental and transmission mediums, marine pipes are threatened by corrosion.
- The detection of corrosion under insulation is an ongoing challenge in the oil and gas industry.
- There is much to learn about the corrosion behavior and microstructure of Al6061 alloy welded by GTAW (Gas tungsten arc welding).
- Cold cracking of weldment is one of the most serious welding problems.
- Aluminum alloys (Al alloys) are vulnerable to penetrating and peeling failures in seawater.
- Stainless steels suffer from pitting corrosion in chloride-containing environments.
- Scores of abrasive wear problems particularly those in the harsh environments involve remarkable breakage of the abrasive.
- Steelmaking industry is facing an issue of deterioration in quality of iron ores.
- Painted aluminium alloys are sometimes affected by filiform corrosion.
- Part of the increase in yield stress during the strain-ageing of a low-carbon steel develops too rapidly to be explained by long-range diffusion.
- The current theories of fretting corrosion based on traditional principles of the theory of wear are often in conflict with experimental data.
- Nickel based self-fluxing thermal sprayed alloys have been used in many applications to protect machinery parts against wear and corrosion.
- Grey cast iron has many fields of application in which wear may be a problem.
- The main cause of electrical contact resistance degradation by corrosion is the vibration of contact interfaces.
- studies of erosion-corrosion of materials in aqueous conditions, there have been a few attempts to evaluate the performance of coatings.
- recognized issue related to metal-on-metal hip resurfacings is early fracture of the femur.
- Dental erosion has been growing increasingly prevalent with the rise in consumption of heavy starches, sugars, coffee, and acidic beverages.
- The high temperature corrosion process metal dusting leads to the formation and decomposition of metastable iron carbides at the surface of iron samples.
- Titanium and its alloys are increasingly being used in many industries because of their high strength-to-weight ratio and resistance to corrosion.
- Corrosion of functional parts within waste-to-energy (WTE) plants significantly reduces their efficiency with respect to maintenance costs.
- The corrosion of mild steel has been studied in HCl of concentrations 3M, 1M and 0.
- Sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets made from strip cast alloys have been studied extensively owing to their strong permanent magnetic properties.
- The 5xxx series aluminium alloys are susceptible to sensitisation during service at elevated temperatures.
- Steel sheet used in automotive applications has to be corrosion protected effectively, which is usually realized by zinc or zinc alloy coatings with a thickness range of 5-10μm.
- High-temperature constructional parts of aircraft engines and energy units are exposed to high dynamic stress (fatigue processes and creep) and various temperatures in dioxide-corrosion condition (hot corrosion, oxidation and erosion).
- The deterioration effect developed on building stones subjected to marine exposure is because of the salt crystallization, which occurs during the repeated drying and wetting phases.
- Due to the extensive application of tin coatings, the electrodeposition mechanism, corrosion resistance and anti-discoloration performance have attracted attention in the past decades.
- Corrosion behavior is a key issue in the assessment of disposal performance for activated waste such as spent fuel assemblies (i.e., hulls and end-pieces) because corrosion is expected to initiate radionuclide (e.g., C-14) leaching from such waste.
- The susceptibility of an aged pure AlCu alloy with 4 wt% Cu to intergranular corrosion (IGC) and to stress corrosion cracking (SCC) has been studied in 1 N NaCl solution.
- Crevice corrosion may initiate in confined regions due to transport limitations, followed by an accumulation of a highly corrosive chemistry, capable of dissolving the metal.
- Rail weld joints from electric-contact welding in stationary and fi eld conditions, as well as those from aluminothermic welding are weak points on tracks that are easily damaged compared with rails outside the weld joints.
- The literature of the corrosion of metals used in high-and low-temperature water-cooled reactors is reviewed and technological and scientific advances in this field are assessed.
- The rusts formed on mild steel (15-year exposure) and weathering steel (32-year exposure) exposed to an industrial environment have been characterized by means of X-ray diffraction technique and 57Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy.
- The plasma electrolyte oxidation (PEO) process has been considered an environmentally friendly surface engineering method for improving the corrosion resistance of light weight metals.
- The uncertainties that exist in the chloride diffusion model may lead to considerable error in the prediction of the time to initiation of corrosion in the service life estimation of concrete structures.
- Microbially influenced corrosion (MIC) of steel has gained increasing attention in recent years because the damage caused by this process is a significant cost factor for industry.
- Corrosion problems in low‐pressure boiler plant systems arise in the Water Side of the Boiler (Internal), the Fire Side of the Boiler (External) and the Boiler Chimney.