- Title
- Clustering of corrosion pit depths for buried cast iron pipes
- Creator
- Asadi, Zohreh Soltani; Melchers, Robert E.
- Relation
- Corrosion Science Vol. 140, p. 92-98
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2018.06.015
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- The exterior surfaces of cast iron pipes buried in clay soils for up to 129 years show clustering of pits of similar depth at progressively greater overall corrosion pit depth. Within experimental accuracy, the pit depth increments are approximately constant over the whole range of pit depth for each soil. They increase with lower soil pH and appear insensitive to other soil properties and to burial period. These new findings are interpreted relative to pitting electrochemical potential and compared with field observations for pitting in marine corrosion of steel. Implications for modelling maximum pit depth development are considered.
- Subject
- iron; modelling studies; weight loss; pitting corrosion
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1395412
- Identifier
- uon:33862
- Identifier
- ISSN:0010-938X
- Rights
- © 2018. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
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