- Title
- Bi-modal trend in the long-term corrosion of aluminium alloys
- Creator
- Melchers, Robert E.
- Relation
- Funding BodyARCGrant NumberDP140103388 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140103388
- Relation
- Corrosion Science Vol. 82, p. 239-247
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2014.01.019
- Publisher
- Pergamon Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- A wide range of literature data including in situ immersion, tidal, coastal atmospheric and industrial exposures is used to show that the trend for longer term corrosion of aluminium alloys is nearly always more consistent with a bi-modal model than with the classical power-law function. It is proposed the bi-modal characteristic results from the accumulation of corrosion products causing localised anoxic conditions. These permit a change from predominantly cathodic oxygen reduction to hydrogen ion reduction under anoxic autocatalytic conditions within pits. This mechanism is consistent with established theory for pitting corrosion in aluminium.
- Subject
- aluminium; modelling studies; atmospheric corrosion; microbiological corrosion
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1054928
- Identifier
- uon:15807
- Identifier
- ISSN:0010-938X
- Language
- eng
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