Corrosion of Metals

Corrosion of Metals
Author: Helmut Kaesche
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2003-09-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783540006268

The following chapters provide an overview of the state of research for those familiar with the fundamentals."--Jacket.

Chemical Bonds Outside Metal Surfaces

Chemical Bonds Outside Metal Surfaces
Author: Norman H. March
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461321174

The problem of molecules interacting with metal surfaces has for a very long time been recognized to be of considerable technological as well as fundamental importance. Thus in the former category, a substantial number of important synthetic reactions for industrial purposes make use of metal surfaces as catalysts. Or again, problems of corrosion of metals are of great practical importance, such as in nuclear-reactor technology [see, for instance, my earlier articles, in: Physics Bulletin, Volume 25, p. 582, Institute of Physics, UK (1974); and in: Physics and Contemporqry Needs (Riazuddin, ed. ), Vol. 1, p. 53, Plenum Press, New York (1977)]. It is therefore of significance to strive to gain a more fundamental understand ing of the atomic, and ultimately the electronic, processes that occur when a molecule is brought into the proximity of a metal surface. The present volume focuses mainly on the theory and concepts involved; however, it is intended for readers in chemistry, physics, and materials science who are not specialists in theory but nevertheless wish to learn more about this truly interdisciplinary area of theoretical science. The aim of the book is to present the way in which valence theory can be synthesized with the understanding of metals that has been gained over the last half century or so. While advanced theory has at times been necessary, is largely presented in an extensive set of Appendixes.

Physical Chemistry of Metallurgical Processes

Physical Chemistry of Metallurgical Processes
Author: M. Shamsuddin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2016-02-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119078334

This book covers various metallurgical topics, viz. roasting of sulfide minerals, matte smelting, slag, reduction of oxides and reduction smelting, interfacial phenomena, steelmaking, secondary steelmaking, role of halides in extraction of metals, refining, hydrometallurgy and electrometallurgy. Each chapter is illustrated with appropriate examples of applications of the technique in extraction of some common, reactive, rare or refractory metal together with worked out problems explaining the principle of the operation.

Fatigue and Corrosion in Metals

Fatigue and Corrosion in Metals
Author: Pietro Paolo Milella
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 853
Release: 2012-10-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 8847023351

This textbook, suitable for students, researchers and engineers, gathers the experience of more than 20 years of teaching fracture mechanics, fatigue and corrosion to professional engineers and running experimental tests and verifications to solve practical problems in engineering applications. As such, it is a comprehensive blend of fundamental knowledge and technical tools to address the issues of fatigue and corrosion. The book initiates with a systematic description of fatigue from a phenomenological point of view, since the early signs of submicroscopic damage in few surface grains and continues describing, step by step, how these precursors develop to become mechanically small cracks and, eventually, macrocracks whose growth is governed by fracture mechanics. But fracture mechanics is also introduced to analyze stress corrosion and corrosion assisted fatigue in a rather advanced fashion. The author dedicates a particular attention to corrosion starting with an electrochemical treatment that mechanical engineers with a rather limited knowledge of electrochemistry will well digest without any pain. The electrochemical introduction is considered an essential requirement to the full understanding of corrosion that is essentially an electrochemical process. All stress corrosion aspects are treated, from the generalized film rupture-anodic dissolution process that is the base of any corrosion mechanism to the aggression occurring in either mechanically or thermally sensitized alloys up to the universe of hydrogen embrittlement, which is described in all its possible modes of appearance. Multiaxial fatigue and out-of-phase loading conditions are treated in a rather comprehensive manner together with damage progression and accumulation that are not linear processes. Load spectra are analyzed also in the frequency domain using the Fourier transform in a rather elegant fashion full of applications that are generally not considered at all in fatigue textbooks, yet they deserve a special place and attention. The issue of fatigue cannot be treated without a probabilistic approach unless the designer accepts the shame of one-out-of-two pieces failure. The reader is fully introduced to the most promising and advanced analytical tools that do not require a normal or lognormal distribution of the experimental data, which is the most common case in fatigue. But the probabilistic approach is also used to introduce the fundamental issue of process volume that is the base of any engineering application of fatigue, from the probability of failure to the notch effect, from the metallurgical variability and size effect to the load type effect. Fractography plays a fundamental role in the post mortem analysis of fatigue and corrosion failures since it can unveil the mystery encrypted in any failure.

Physicochemical Mechanics

Physicochemical Mechanics
Author: Nikolai Kocherginsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1108421415

Mechanical and Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Modified Materials

Mechanical and Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Modified Materials
Author: Seghir Maamir
Publisher: Apple Academic Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-03-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781774632390

Understanding chemical and solid materials and their properties and behavior is fundamental to chemical and engineering design. With some of the world's leading experts describing their most recent research, this book describes the procedures for material selection and design to ensure that the most suitable materials for a given application are identified from the full range of materials, chemicals, and section shapes available. Several case studies have been developed to further illustrate procedures and to add to the practical implementation of the text.