Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 2015, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (4): 449-453.DOI: 10.1007/s40195-015-0216-x

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A New Information Method to Determinate Corrosion Types from Electrochemical Noise

Jian Li1(), Huan-Jun Zheng1, Ye Zheng1, Wei-Kang Kong1, Ke Wang2   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instrument, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
    2 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
  • Received:2014-06-10 Revised:2014-07-31 Online:2015-01-23 Published:2015-07-23

Abstract:

Electrochemical noise data in the presence of different corrosion types were analyzed. A correlation between the corrosion type of the observed noise and the entropy rate was recognized. A sequence was transformed from each set of original electrochemical noise signal, then the Markov process M and stationary distribution μ were calculated. Finally, entropy rate of each sequence was obtained by the definition. From the entropy rate, it has been observed that local corrosion showed a lower entropy rate, while uniform corrosion showed a higher entropy rate.

Key words: Entropy rate, Stainless steel, Corrosion, Electrochemical behavior