Crevice corrosion behaviour of superaustenitic stainless steels: Dynamic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy studies

Corrosion Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 217-224

  Nagarajan, S ^a   Rajendran, N ^a  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Crevice corrosion; DEIS; Passive film; Superaustenitic stainless steel

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CORROSION; CORROSION RESISTANCE; CORROSIVE EFFECTS; DISSOLUTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; LASER BEAM WELDING; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; STEEL; STEEL METALLURGY;

316L SS; CIRCUIT POTENTIALS; CREVICE CORROSION; CREVICE CORROSION RESISTANCE; DEIS; DYNAMIC ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY (DEIS); FORCE MICROSCOPY; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENTS; IMPEDANCE SPECTRUM; PASSIVE FILM; PASSIVE LAYERS; POTENTIAL REGIONS; POTENTIO DYNAMIC; POTENTIODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; SEA WATER; SUPERAUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL;

STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 58749096148     PISSN: 0010938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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