Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 2001, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (2): 91-96 .

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CORROSION MONITORING OF LY12 IN SODIUM CHLORIDE SOLUTION WITH ELECTROCHEMICAL NOISE TECHNIQUE

J.Q. Zhang   

  1. Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;State Key Laboratory for Corrosion and Protection of Metals, Institute of Metal Research, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
  • Received:2000-11-06 Revised:2000-12-25 Online:2001-04-25 Published:2009-10-10
  • Contact: J.Q. Zhang

Abstract: Spontaneous electrochemical noise (EN) can be a rich source of information concerning the processes simultaneously occurring on a corroding interface. But the noise signal is often difficult to be analyzed due to the complicated nature of the specific systems being investigated. In this paper, the potential noise fluctuations during the free corrosion of commercial aluminum alloy LY12 in sodium chloride solution was recorded and analyzed with different techniques. The typical results showed that the fractal dimension (D,n) obtained from spectral power density (SPD) is mainly directly proportional to the intensity of pitting corrosion and to the value of pitting parameter (SE) derived from dimensional analysis, while the fractal dimension (DE) obtained from EIS is mainly related to the uniform corrosion.

Key words: electrochemical noise, fractal, stochastic analysis, dimensionanalysis, localized corrosion