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Tropical/non‐tropical marine environments impact on the behaviour of carbon steel and galvanised steel
Author(s) -
Vera Rosa,
de Rincón Oladis Troconis,
Bagnara Margarita,
Romero Nathalie,
Araya Raquel,
Ossandón Sebastián
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
materials and corrosion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.487
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1521-4176
pISSN - 0947-5117
DOI - 10.1002/maco.201709873
Subject(s) - galvanization , carbon steel , tropical marine climate , metallurgy , carbon fibers , environmental science , precipitation , corrosion , materials science , geography , composite material , meteorology , layer (electronics) , composite number
The aim of this study is to assess the main factors that affect the behaviour of carbon steel and galvanised steel in tropical and non‐tropical marine environments, identifying those factors that directly affect the behaviour. The results from the INNOVA (Chile) and MICAT/PATINA (Venezuela) projects will be used. These projects evaluated metals exposed to different marine environments using procedures outlined in ISO 9223/9226. The results show that temperature has no significant effect on the behaviour of the materials at the study sites in question (Venezuela being 10 °C warmer than Chile), independent of the tropical nature of the exposure environment, while it is precipitation (>600 mm) and chloride and SO 2 content in the environment that mainly influence the behaviour of the carbon steel and the galvanised steel. In addition, an artificial neural network was generated to evaluate the corrosion rate of the studied metals, using meteoro‐chemical variables. The neural network for the carbon and galvanised steel was more precise for the exposure sites located in Chile.