Fundamentals of corrosion

Over the past two decades, increasing attention has been given both to an understanding of corrsion processes and to the development of methods of prevention. There are several possible reasons for this, including the following  

The extent and diversity of the use of metals has increased new alloys continue to be developed. 

Increasingly specialized applications of metals in particularly aggressive media as in the fields of aerospace, offshore oil and atomic energy. 

The existence of more corrosive environments due to increasing air and water pollution. 

Economic incentives sometimes result in the reduction of metal structures to slimmer dimensions the impact of corrosion is thus made more rapid and/or severe. 

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J. C. Scully, The Fundamentals of Corrosion, 2nd edition, Pergamon Press, 1975, Chap. 1. 

I- P. Chilton, Principles of Metallic Corrosion, 2nd edition. The Chemical Society, 1973, Chap. 3. M. G. Fontana and N. D. Greene, Corrosion Engineering, McGraw Hill, 1967, Chaps. 2 and 3. J. C. Scully, The Fundamentals of Corrosion, 2nd edition, Pergamon Press, 1975, Chap. 2. Smithells Metals Reference Book, 7th edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992 (for data). 

Duquette, D. J., Fundamentals of corrosion fatigue behaviour of metals and alloys , in Proc. Conf. Hydrogen Embrittlement and Stress Corrosion Cracking, Cleveland, Ohio, 1-3 June 1980, Case Western Reserve University Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, pp. 249-70 (1980)... 

Rowe, L. C. and Chance, R. L. "Fundamentals of Corrosion Testing" in AUTOMOTIVE CORROSION BY DEICING SALTS ... 

Work at Sandia National Laboratory has looked into the fundamentals of corrosion. Macroscopic results of experiments into the pitting of aluminum wire when exposed to sodium chloride solution indicate that the pitting potential is not a thermodynamic value but rather the potential associated with the kinetics of oxide breakdown. As a result, as a device becomes increasingly small, the probability of oxide breakdown will likewise decrease. At nanoscale a device made of this material would be highly unlikely to undergo oxide breakdown, and such a device would be expected to exhibit stability for long periods of time. 

Fundamentals of Corrosion Chemistry Principal Corrosion Reactions Theoretical Bases of Corrosion Control Types of Corrosion Phenomena Methods of Studying Corrosion Control... 

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