- Title
- A conceptual model for the interaction between carbon content and manganese sulphide inclusions in the short-term seawater corrosion of low carbon steel
- Creator
- Melchers, Robert E.; Chaves, Igor A.; Jeffrey, Robert
- Relation
- Funding BodyARCGrant NumberDP140103388 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140103388
- Relation
- Metals Vol. 6, Issue 6
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/met6060132
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- The critical role of manganese sulphide (MnS) inclusions for the initiation of the short-term growth of pitting or localized corrosion of low carbon steels has long been recognized. Classical results show that pitting probability and pitting severity increases with increased sulphide concentration for low carbon steels as a result of magnesium sulphides acting as local cathodes for initiating pitting corrosion. However, the iron carbides (cementite) in steels can also act as local cathodes for initiation of pitting corrosion. Herein it is proposed that there is competition between pits for cathodic area and that this will determine the severity of pitting and general corrosion observed in extended exposures. Preliminary experimental data for immersion exposures of up to 56 days in natural seawater of three low carbon steels show, contrary to conventional wisdom, greater pit depths for the steels with lower S content. However, the pit depth results are consistent with lower C/S ratios. This is considered to support the concept of cathodic competition between C and S. It is proposed that this offers explanations for a number of other phenomena, including the thus far unexplained apparently higher reactivity of some MnS inclusions.
- Subject
- manganese; sulphides; cathodes; carbon; competition
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1324167
- Identifier
- uon:24972
- Identifier
- ISSN:2075-4701
- Rights
- © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution(CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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