last modified: 07/03/2006

Course code: MS3461

Course name: Corrosion and Protection against Corrosion

This concerns a Course

In the program of  MSc MSE                                         and of 

EC (European Credits): 3 (1 EC concerns a work load of 28 hours)

Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department of MSE

Lecturer 1: prof.dr. J.H.W. de Wit

Tel.:  015 - 27 82196 /      

Lecturer 2:      

Lecturer 3:      

Catalog data:

corrosion, protection against corrosion, corrosion principles, corrosion prevention, galvanic corrosion, intergranular corrosion, pitting corrosion, crevice corrosion, coatings, surface layers

Course year:

MSc 2nd year

Course language:

English

 

In case of Dutch: Please contact the lecturer about an English alternative, whenever needed.

Semester:

1A

Hours per week:

2

Other hours:

     

Assessment:

Written exam

Assessment period:

1A / 1B

(see academic calendar)

 

Prerequisites (course codes):

     

Follow up (course codes):

     

Detailed description of topics:

-    Relevance of corrosion, costs to society

-    Definitions and electrochemical character of corrosion

-    General corrosion vs local forms of corrosion

-    Electrochemical Thermodynamics

-    Electrochemical Kinetics

-    Passivity

-    Galvanic Corrosion and intergranular corrosion

-    Pitting and Crevice Corrosion

-    Protection against corrosion

Course material:

  • Principles and Prevention of Corrosion, Second Edition 1996, van Denny A. Jones, ISBN 0-13-359993-0

References from literature:

  •      

Remarks assessment, entry requirements, etc.:

In case of too few participants the written exam will be replaced by an oral exam.

Learning goals:

The student is able to describe the electrochemical nature of corrosion processes, in his professional life to understand the risks hazards and costs due to corrosion phenomena and act upon it in making decisions on metals applications and to make an argumentative selection of  materials classes ( steel, stainless steel, aluminium alloys, copper alloys) for given applications.

 

More specifically, the student is able to:

1.   derive and produce qualitative and semiquantitative polarisation diagrams  for a corroding metal from a

      simple set of data

2.   compose polarisation diagrams for galvanic corrosion  and for passive materials from a set of data

3.   compose and use Pourbaix diagrams in making decisions on metals applications

4.   calculate the corrosion current density of metals from quantitative polarisation diagrams

5.   transform the corrosion current density into practical corrosion rates like mm/year

6.   list the most important corrosion localised phenomena

7.   describe the mechanisms of the most important localised corrosion phenomena

8.   criticize a given description of a corrosion  mechanism

9.   select the technical best protection measures to prevent attack of metals in a given surrounding

10. criticize and judge a given materials application

11. discuss in a balanced way applied protective measures taking into account, risks for health, environment and

     costs

Computer use:

     

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