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Corrosion engineering
The process of applying engineering science in the design and manufacturing of materials, structures and devices to manage and control corrosion.
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Corrosion engineering
solution heat treatment
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
Heating an alloy to a suitable temperature, holding at that temperature long enough to cause one or more constituents to enter into solid solution, and then cooling rapidly enough to hold these ...
u-bend specimen
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
Horseshoe-shaped test piece used to detect the susceptibility of a material to stress corrosion cracking.
calorizing
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
Imparting resistance to oxidation to an iron or steel surface by heating in aluminum powder at 800 to 1000C (1470 to 1830F).
chromadizing
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
Improving paint adhesion on aluminum or aluminum alloys, mainly aircraft skins, by treatment with a solution of chromic acid. Also called chromodizing or chromatizing. Not to be confused with ...
dielectric shield
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
In a cathodic protection system, in electrically nonconductive material, such as a coating, plastic sheet or pipe that is placed between an anode and an adjacent cathode to avoid current wastage and ...
chemical potential
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
In a thermodynamic system of several constituents, the rate of change of the Gibbs function of the system with respect to the change in the number of moles of a particular constituent.
sensitization
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
In austenitic stainless steels the precipitation of chromium carbides, usually at grain boundaries, on exposure to temperatures of about 550 to 850C (about 1000 to 1550F), leaving the grain ...
