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http://dx.doi.org/10.14773/cst.2013.12.1.056

Evaluations of corrosion resistance of Ni-Cr plated and Zn-plated Fe Substrates Using an Electrolytic Corrosion Test  

Lee, Jae-Bong (School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University)
Kim, Kyung-Wook (School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University)
Park, Min-Woo (School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University)
Song, Tae-Jun (School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University)
Lee, Chae-Seung (School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University)
Lee, Eui-Jong (Korea Testing Laboratory)
Kim, Sang-Yeol (Korea Testing Laboratory)
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Corrosion Science and Technology / v.12, no.1, 2013 , pp. 56-64 More about this Journal
Abstract
An Eectrolytic Corrosion(EC) test method was evaluated by the comparison with Copper Accelerated Acetic Salt Spray(CASS) and Neutral Salt Spray(SS) tests. Those methods were applied in order to evaluate corrosion resistance of Ni-Cr plated and Zn-plated Fe substrates. The correlations between results obtained by different test methods were investigated. Results showed that the electrochemical method such as the EC test method was superior to the conventional methods such as CASS and SS, in terms of the quantitative accuracy and the test-time span. Furthermore, the EC test method provided the useful means to estimate the initiation of corrosion of each layer by monitoring the rest potentials of the coated layers such as Ni, Cr, and Zn on Fe substrate. With regard to test time spans, the EC test provided the 78 times and 182 times faster results than the CASS test in cases of $Fe+5{\mu}m$ $Ni+0.5{\mu}m$ Cr and $Fe+20{\mu}m$ $Ni+0.5{\mu}m$ Cr respectively, while the EC test was 85 times faster results than the Salt Spray test in the case of $Fe+20g/m^2$ Zn. Therefore, the EC test can be the better method to evaluate the resistance to corrosion of coated layers than the conventional methods such as the SS test and the CASS.
Keywords
corrosion resistance; EC test; salt spray; CASS; rest potential;
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