Measurement of the corrosion rate of magnesium alloys using Tafel extrapolation

Corrosion Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 579-588

  Shi, Zhiming ^a   Liu, Ming ^a   Atrens, Andrej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

A. Magnesium corrosion; B. Hydrogen evolution; B. Tafel extrapolation; B. Weight loss

Indexed keywords

A. MAGNESIUM CORROSION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; TAFEL EXTRAPOLATIONS; WEIGHT LOSS;

ALLOYS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC CORROSION; EXTRAPOLATION; HYDROGEN; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; POLARIZATION;

CORROSION RATE;

EID: 72649103220     PISSN: 0010938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2009.10.016     Document Type: Article

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