Corrosion and pitting of 6060 series aluminium after 2 years exposure in seawater splash, tidal and immersion zones

Title: Corrosion and pitting of 6060 series aluminium after 2 years exposure in seawater splash, tidal and immersion zones
Creator: Liang, Mengxia; Melchers, Robert; Chaves, Igor
Relation: ARC
Relation: Corrosion Science Vol. 140, p. 286-296
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2018.05.036
Publisher: Elsevier
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: New longer-term observations of corrosion and pitting of 6060-grade aluminium alloy showed that the most intensive pitting and corrosion occurred in the marine immersion zone. After 2 years exposure the corrosion morphology included shallow and deep pits, intergranular corrosion and crystallographic attack. The deepest pits showed complex morphologies, spatially and with depth. This is considered the result of localized anoxic conditions formed under accumulated corrosion products. Less severe corrosion was observed in the splash and tidal zones. For these the pit morphologies were less complex.
Subject: aluminium; alloy; pitting corrosion; intergranular corrosion
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1447377
Identifier: uon:43131
Identifier: ISSN:0010-938X
Language: eng
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