Severe local attack, such as pitting, (see figure 1) and crevice corrosion, can be a significant problem in stainless steels and other alloys that depend on self-healing, which can only occur when ...

What affects almost everything made of metal, from cars to boats to underground pipes and even the fillings in your teeth? Corrosion — a slow process of decay. At a global cost of trillions of dollars ...

New deterministic and stochastic models can perdict the evolution of pitting corrosion depth and rate distributions from observed soil properties. Researchers performed a total of 259 excavations in 3 ...

Laboratory experiments and observation of pit growth rates in six operating fields have led to development of a model to predict internal pitting corrosion of oil and gas pipelines. Laboratory ...

In this article we develop statistical extreme-value theory as a method to validate and improve experiments with extremal responses, and to extrapolate and compare results. Our main motivation is ...

Titanium, like any other metal, is subject to corrosion in some environments. The types of corrosion that have been observed on titanium may be classified under the general headings: general corrosion ...

Corrosion is a historical and persistent challenge for aircraft, affecting both metal structures (as electrochemical deterioration or "rust") and wooden components, where it manifests as "dry rot" ...