The number of revision total hip arthroplasties is predicted to more than double in USA over the next 25 years from an estimated 40800 in 2005 to approximately 96700 in 2030 [1]. Modular femoral stems offer the advantage of adjustment and restoration of joint kinematics including leg length, femoral version and offset, regardless of the exact position of the distal part of the stem [2]. Disadva...

This article describes the susceptibility of 316L stainless steel to stress corrosion cracking (SCC) in a nitrite-containing chloride solution. Slow strain rate testing (SSRT) in 30 wt. % MgCl₂ solution established SCC susceptibility, as evidenced by post-SSRT fractography. Addition of nitrite to the chloride solution, which is reported to have inhibitive influence on corrosion of stainless ste...

Corrosion surface damage in the form of pitting and micro-cracks is observed in many metals. Cracks usually initiate from the pits and grow under cyclic stresses and eventually lead to material failure. An image analysis based on wavelet transforms and fractals was used to study the corrosion morphology of nickel aluminum bronze metal under varying corrosion conditions and applied stresses. Ima...

Intergranular corrosion (IGC) can be defined as the phenomena in which the corrosion rate of the grain boundary is higher than that of the bulk grain body. Austenitic stainless steels can become “sensitized” to this type of corrosion when the bulk metal experiences a temperature excursion above that necessary to make chromium carbides dissolve. As the metal cools, chromium carbide preferentiall...

In principle, any method to determine the corrosion rate can be used to test a corrosion inhibitor. The primary criterion for evaluation is the inhibitor efficiency. Inhibitors having sufficiently high efficiency are tested for "side effects," which include environmental compatibility, emulsion formation, viscosity and pour point density. Finally, the inhibitor formulation is tested in the fiel...

It is different to detect defect in multilayer structure of an aging aircraft fuselage, pulsed eddy current (PEC) technique has been demonstrated to be capable of quantifying this defect. Based on theoretical analysis of PEC technique, the array probe is designed and the array PEC imaging technique has been supposed to detect corrosion in the multilayer structure. By selecting peak amplitude an...

Nickel in elemental form or alloyed with other metals or materials has made significant contribution to our present day society. Nickel and nickel alloys are the class of advanced material that are are identified as candidate materials for marine applications and vitally important to aerospace, automotive industries because of their ability to withstand a wide variety of severe operating condit...

The crevice correction is a common type of localized corrosion which costs multibillion dollar losses in many different fields including aerospace, automobile, and building structures. The crevice geometry can easily catch moisture and impurity which accelerates the chemical corrosion. It is one of the dangerous corrosions that can cause sudden failure of the products and involve the human inju...

Corrosion is one of the major problems in the oil and gas industry is one that automatically allocates huge sums annually. Polyurethane is a thermoses polymer with various applications. Using form this polymer has spread for military applications by Otto Bayer in 1930. In one general look polyurethane is product of Iso Syanate and ploy with each other, So that: Iso + ploy = polyurethane. Spend ...

L. Bernat, Poznan University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Management, Division of Foundry, Poznan, Poland The paper presents an influence of the Dendrite Arm Spacing (DAS) microstructure parameter on the intergranular corrosion of AlSi7Mg aluminum alloy. The samples were subjected to the corrosion process for: 2,5; 12; 24; 48 and 96 hours in NaCl + HCl + H2O solution. It...