Statistical and Probability Characteristics of Pitting Corrosion

Probability Approach for Prediction of Pitting Corrosion Fatigue Life of Custom 450 Steel

In this study, the pitting type of corrosion growth characteristics, fatigue crack initiation and propagation behavior; axial fatigue tests were carried out on precipitation hardened martensitic Custom 450 steel in the air and 3.5wt% NaCl solution. Using the ratio of the depth to the half-width of the pits; (a/c)= 1.5±0.2 the corrosion pit depth growth law was obtained as a function of stress a...

Pitting Corrosion Monitoring Using Acoustic Emission

Ultrasonic Detection and Measuring of Isolated or Pitting Corrosion (ipc)

AS2542.3 (Determination of Thickness – Use of Ultrasonic Testing) states: “This standard specifies six methods for determination of thickness of material based on the use of ultrasonic pulse-echo principals where the scanning and reflecting surfaces are substantially parallel”. In many cases, the principals and procedures used in AS2452.3 are not applicable for the detection and measuring of is...

Corrosion pitting and environmentally assisted small crack growth.

In many applications, corrosion pits act as precursors to cracking, but qualitative and quantitative prediction of damage evolution has been hampered by lack of insights into the process by which a crack develops from a pit. An overview is given of recent breakthroughs in characterization and understanding of the pit-to-crack transition using advanced three-dimensional imaging techniques such a...

Numerical Simulation of Material Strength Deterioration due to Pitting Corrosion

Pitting corrosion is an insidious form of localized corrosion a ecting characteristics of various engineering metallic alloys. Currently very limited literature exists with regard to systematic characterization of pitted surfaces or the efficient use of numerical methods to assess its effect, i.e. fatigue life reduction caused by the state of a corroded specimen and particularly through the stu...