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Corrosion
Analyzing Aqueous Corrosion Products
A combination of multiple methods is often required to correctly identify aqueous corrosion products with the most commonly used methods being scanning electron...
By: Steven Bradley | Principal Consultant, Bradley Consulting Services
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Corrosion
Intergranular Corrosion: What It Is and How To Stop It
There are many types of corrosion damage, such uniform corrosion and pitting corrosion that people can readily see with the naked eye. However, some corrosion damage is...
By: Dennis Jayasinghe | Principal/Chief Technical Officer, Corr-Met Inspection & Consulting Inc.
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Corrosion Prevention
5 Ways to Avoid Galvanic Corrosion
Galvanic corrosion (also called bimetallic corrosion or dissimilar metal corrosion) is a deteriorative electrochemical process that occurs when two dissimilar metals are...
By: Krystal Nanan | Civil Engineer
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Corrosion
8 Things to Know and Understand About Iron Corrosion
When iron is exposed to moisture along with oxygen, it becomes corroded, which is an oxidation process involving a loss of electrons. This reaction is also called...
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Corrosion
Effect of Corrosion on a Material's Tensile Strength and Ductility
Modern construction materials have a number of well-defined mechanical properties that can tell us a lot about their characteristics and behavior when used in...
By: Nemanja Pavlovic
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Corrosion Prevention
How to Control Corrosion by Improving Design
The proper design to minimize corrosion is as important as the selection of materials. In many structures, a lack of design consideration the weakest link in corrosion...
By: Alan Kehr | Managing Consultant, Alan Kehr Anti-Corrosion, LLC
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Failure
Caustic Cracking of Austenitic Stainless Steel
Caustic cracking of austenitic stainless steels is an environmentally assisted failure mode that is often forgotten and not always considered when specifying a material...
By: Steven Bradley | Principal Consultant, Bradley Consulting Services
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Cathodic Protection
Cathodic Protection and Anode Backfills
Cathodic protection (CP), a technique to prevent corrosion, was employed before the science of electrochemistry had been developed. History tells us that this method was...
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Pipeline
An Intro to Pipeline Corrosion and Protection Methods
The notion of a country in the world without a large and complex network of pipelines is similar to a human body with no arteries. Pipelines that transport and...
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Corrosion Failure
Chloride Stress Corrosion Cracking of Austenitic Stainless Steel
Of the types of environmentally assisted cracking of austenitic stainless steel, chloride stress corrosion cracking (Cl-SCC) is the most common. (For an introduction to...
By: Steven Bradley | Principal Consultant, Bradley Consulting Services
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Corrosion Prevention
Corrosion Electrochemistry: The 6 Electrochemical Reactions Involved in Corrosion
Corrosion is an electrochemical method by which materials are deteriorated. In many cases—and especially when liquids are present—it involves chemistry...
By: Alan Kehr | Managing Consultant, Alan Kehr Anti-Corrosion, LLC
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Corrosion
Introduction to the Chemistry of Pipes in Seawater
It is estimated that around 30% of all scrap metal comes from corroded metal materials or equipment. And marine environments, no doubt, have made a significant...
By: Krystal Nanan | Civil Engineer
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