The study of intergranular corrosion in aircraft aluminium alloys using X-ray tomography

Corrosion Science

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 727-734

  Knight, S P ^a,c   Salagaras, M ^b   Trueman, A R ^b,c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c The University of Queensland   (Australia)

Author keywords

A. Aluminium; C. Atmospheric corrosion; C. Intergranular corrosion

Indexed keywords

3.5%NACL; A. ALUMINIUM; AIRCRAFT ALUMINIUM; AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES; C. ATMOSPHERIC CORROSION; CORROSION DEPTH; CORROSION PROCESS; FATIGUE CRACKS; FUNCTION OF TIME; INTERGRANULAR CORROSION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; STRESS CORROSION CRACK; STRUCTURAL DAMAGES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

AIRCRAFT; ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; ATMOSPHERIC CORROSION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORROSION FATIGUE; CRACKS; DROP FORMATION; OXYGEN; PITTING; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING; TEXTURES;

ALUMINUM CORROSION;

EID: 78650231559     PISSN: 0010938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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