Atmospheric Corrosion of Carbon Steel and Weathering Steel in Three Environments

doi:10.11902/1005.4537.2015.010

Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection

2016, Vol. 36

Issue (1): 39-46 DOI: 10.11902/1005.4537.2015.010

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Atmospheric Corrosion of Carbon Steel and Weathering Steel in Three Environments

Chuan WANG(

),Gongwang CAO,Chen PAN,Zhenyao WANG,Miaoran LIU

Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China

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Atmospheric corrosion of carbon steel Q235 and 45#, and weathering steel Corten A was studied in three typical atmospheres at tropic rainforest-, marine- and industrial-exposure sites respectively. Results show that the carbon steels and the weathering steel exhibited more or less the same corrosion kinetics, the formation of rusts and their evolution for exposure in one test site. But they were significant different from those for exposure in other test sites. Finally, the influence factors on corrosion process and the corrosivity of the three atmospheres were also discussed.

Key words: carbon steel weathering steel atmospheric corrosion conversion of rust semipermeable membrane

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Chuan WANG,Gongwang CAO,Chen PAN,Zhenyao WANG,Miaoran LIU. Atmospheric Corrosion of Carbon Steel and Weathering Steel in Three Environments. Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection, 2016, 36(1): 39-46.

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Table 1 Chemical compositions of Q235, 45# and Corten A steels (mass fraction / %)

Table 2 Environmental conditions of the exposure test stations

Table 3 Pollute factors of the exposure stations

Fig.1 Corrosion rates of carbon steels and weathering steelas a function of exposure time in Xishuangbanna (a), Jiangjin (b) and Wanning (c)

Table 4 Corrosivity classification based on corrosionrates of three steels after 1 a exposure in different stations (μm/a)

Fig.2 Surface morphologies of Corten A after 1 a exposure in Xishuangbanna (a), Wanning (b) and Jiangjin (c) stations

Table 5 Contents of some elements in the corrosion products on Corten A surface after 1 a exposure in three stations(mass fraction / %)

Table 6 Contents of some elements in the corrosion products on Corten A surface in Xishuangbanna station(mass fraction / %)

Table 7 Corrosion products formed on three steels after 1 a exposure in three stations

Fig.3 Surface morphologies of Corten A after exposed in Xishuangbanna station for 3 months (a, b) and 12 months (c, d)

Fig.4 IR spectra of the corrosion products formed on Q235after 1 a exposure station in Xishuangbanna

Fig.5 Surface morphologies of Q235 (a) and Corten A (b) after 3 months exposure in Jiangjin station

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