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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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Metal dusting
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
Accelerated deterioration of metals in carbonaceous gases at elevated temperatures to form a dust-like corrosion product; a unique form of high temperature corrosion which forms a dust-like corrosion ...
Passivity
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
A condition in which a piece of metal, because of an impervious covering of oxide or other compound, has a potential much more positive than that at the metal in the active state.
Ageing
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
A change in the properties of certain metals and alloys that occurs at ambient or moderately elevated temperatures after hot working or a heat treatment (quench ageing in ferrous alloys, natural or ...
Plasma spraying
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
A thermal spraying process in which the coating material is melted with heat from a plasma torch that generates a nontransferred arc: molten coating material is propelled against the base metal by ...
Radiation damage
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
A general term for the alteration of properties of a material arising from exposure to ionising radiation (penetrating radiation), such as x-rays, gamma rays. neutrons, heavy-particle radiation, or ...
Elastomer
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
A natural or synthetic polymer, which at room temperature can be stretched repeatedly to at least twice its original length, and which after removal of the tensile loud will immediately and forcibly ...
Local cell
Materials science; Corrosion engineering
A galvanic cell resulting from inhomogeneities between areas on a metal surface in an electrolyte. The inhomogeneities may be of physical or chemical nature in either the metal or its environment.
