Erosion Corrosion in Stainless Steel
Farzad Mohammadi, PhD student in Materials Engineering
Supervisor - Dr. Jingli Luo
Although Stainless steel is highly resistant to corrosion and has good mechanical properties, in corrosive-erosive environments it does not perform well. The problem is described by the passive film breakdown caused by solid particles impacts.
A series of tests were implemented to examine the validity of a novel erosion corrosion model proposed by B.T.LU et al. A single impingement device is exclusively designed to detect the transient current produced from single particle impacts. SEM observations on scratched surfaces coupled with electrochemical noise measurements demonstrated a reasonable match with the theoretical model. |
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