Mechanical Aspects of Corrosion
- Familiarity with the course and references, Introduction
- Fracture, Modes of fracture, Theoretical cohesive strength of metals, Griffith theory of brittle fracture, Factors affected on fracture
- Crack initiation, Types of cracks, The stress concentration factor, Charpy impact test
- Fatigue, Basics of Fatigue, Types of fatigue
- Stages of fatigue failure including crack initiation, crack propagation and failure
- Corrosion, Intoduction, Basic concepts in corrosion, Polarization, Factors affecting corrosion
- Types of corrosion including: Uniform attack, Galvanic corrosion, Crevice corrosion, Pitting corrosion, Intergranular corrosion, Selective leaching and biological corrosion and Prevention of corrosion
- Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) , Mechanical, Micro-structural and environmental aspects of SCC
- SCC mechanisms
- SCC prevention, Chloride SCC
- Hydrogen damages including: Hydrogen embrittlement, hydrogen blistering, and hydrogen induced cracking
- Sulfide stress Cracking, Hydrogen damage theories, hydrogen damage prevention
- Fatigue corrosion, Principles of fatigue corrosion, Effect of corrosive environment
- Fatigue corrosion mechanisms
Erosion corrosion, Parameters of erosion corrosion, Erosion corrosion rate
- Prevention of erosion corrosion
Cavitation corrosion
Fretting corrosion