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Understanding Carburization: The Positive and Negative Impacts on Metals
Carburization and other case hardening methods are used to manufacture durable, low-cost low carbon steels and low alloy steels with...
The 3 Stages of Corrosion Failure Analysis
Failure analysis allows corrosion engineers to determine why a component or piece of equipment failed and how to prevent the same type of...
Decommissioning Your Cathodic Protection Well
Decommissioning a deep anode well or groundbed simply by removing the surface hardware and walking away is often no longer acceptable....
Why Concrete Delamination Occurs - and What to Do About It
Delamination in concrete slabs can be a serious problem. This article examines how to prevent them—and how to find and fix them when they...
How to Enhance Safety When Working With Volatile Organic Compounds
VOCs are emitted from coatings used in the corrosion protection industry. Several techniques are available that reduce the VOCs produced...
Electric Transportation Systems and Stray Current Corrosion
Stray current corrosion from DC transit system is a real threat to a pipeline’s integrity, but it can be detected by measuring the...
Corrosion Knowledge Management Vs. Corrosion Management: An Essential Tool for Assets Integrity Management
A model for material management called Corrosion Knowledge Management (CMK) may be applied by both corrosion experts and non-corrosionists...
Writing Safety Into Your Coating Specification
Safety should be a primary consideration in any coating specification, because everyone involved in a coating project has the right to...
Problems Caused by the Lack of Clarity & Definition in Coating Specifications
Common disputes on coating application projects often originate in the coating specification. When the specification is unclear, it can...
Why Pigging Out Is A-OK When It Comes to Cleaning Pipelines
This article examines pipeline operational pigging for internal corrosion prevention, including requirements, pig types, pig selection,...
Engineering Ships for Better Coating Performance
When examining why marine coatings fail, the industry commonly assumes the cause lies in substandard surface preparation or paint...
An Overview of Cathodic Protection Potential Measurement
Learn about cathodic protection potential measurement, a method used to determine the adequacy of a cathodic protection system by comparing...
Guided Wave Ultrasonic Testing for Non-piggable Pipelines
Guided wave ultrasonic testing (GWUT) is a viable alternative for pipelines considered to be non-piggable because they are located in...
Tightrope: Identifying Limiting Conditions for Coatings Specification
In writing coating specifications, it is essential to understand and include all of the limiting conditions at a specific site where...
Coating Holidays & Pinholes: Chinks in the Armor
Defects in a coating film can ultimately leave the metal substrate vulnerable to corrosion, thus negating the purpose of the protective...
Tools & Tips: Holiday Detection on Coated Steel & Concrete Substrates
A coating inspector offers tips on using low voltage and high voltage testers to find coating pinholes (holidays) on painted metallic...
Corrosion Rate Conversion: Simple Ways to Convert Data Between Common Corrosion Units
Corrosion rate conversion is important when measuring the corrosion rate (the velocity at which metal is lost) of equipment or a metallic...
Defining Service Requirements & Environmental Factors for Coating Specification
An expert coatings engineer describes the international standards and procedures necessary to define environmental factors and durability...
Wet Abrasive Blasting: An Overview of Surface Cleaning Alternatives
Each of the various types of wet abrasive blasting techniques offers advantages for certain situations. Three types are examined:...
