Browsing by Subject "corrosion"
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(2023-01-19)Incorporating nanofillers into organic coatings is an effective method of improving their long-term corrosion resistance. Due to their electrical insulation, hydrophobicity, and chemical inertness, boron nitride nanosheets ...
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(2022-11-21)In the commercial nuclear power industry, there is a vested interest in improving the properties of the reactor components. Improving nuclear reactor materials to resist the severe structural changes and degradation not ...
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(2020-12-01)Facility Condition Assessments are a tool for Facility Managers to assess the maintenance needs of facilities and installed equipment and plan sustainment, restoration, and modernization activities. As the use of these ...
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(2011-02-22)The main focus of this research is the transformation induced fatigue behavior of shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators undergoing thermally induced martensitic phase transformation. The recent development of aerospace ...
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(2020-07-21)Acidizing in the oil and gas industry is a stimulation operation with a purpose of improving a well's productivity or injectivity. The main problems resulting from this process come from the fact that acid is corrosive and ...
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(2019-10-25)Passivity as an electrochemical/chemical mechanism has an important impact on engineering materials; the process helps to mitigate and control the corrosion process by providing a nano- to Angstrom- scale protective barrier ...
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(2023-06-21)In this work, the sulfide corrosion cracking susceptibility of a novel ultrafine grain high strength steel were studied under different concentrations of H2S and pH. The critical sulfide stress cracking factor (KISSC ) was ...
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(2010-07-14)In post-tensioned (PT) bridges, prestressing steel tendons are the major load carrying components. These tendons consist of strands, ducts, and cementitious grout that fill the interstitial space between the strands and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)The behaviors of high temperature corrosion on hot-dip aluminized on 9Cr-1Mo and 310 stainless steels when catalyzed by NaCl and cyclic heating environment were studied experimentally. The corrosion behavior and morphological ...
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(2017-04-24)Corrosion of equipment is one of the most vital factors that results in serious process safety incidents. Though various types of equipment are subject to corrosion issues to different extent depending on the process ...
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(2015-10-28)Tribocorrosion is one of the most dangerous threats to material systems due to the accelerated and uncontrollable damage. The interaction of mechanical rubbing and chemical corrosion causes material failure in a quite short ...
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(2018-10-25)Large monolithic shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators are currently limited to applications with low cyclic actuation frequency due to their high thermal masses coupled with low heat transfer rates. Liquid gallium-indium ...
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(2017-12-04)The presence of hydrogen in structural metals and alloys especially steels has proven to be a problem warranting a significant amount of attention for over a century. In steels presence of hydrogen severely degrades its ...
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(2018-10-04)Polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) and polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) have become materials of interest due to their potential applications. As for every other material, understanding their properties under conditions ...
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(2014-10-09)Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of bridge stay cable and external post-tensioning (PT) systems is an essential tool to thorough bridge inspections and also eliminates any necessary repair of destructions made during ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Controlled Low Strength Materials (CLSM) are cementitious self-compacting materials, comprised of low cement content, supplementary cementing materials, fine aggregates, and water. CLSM is typically used as an alternative ...
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(2012-02-14)Essential to human life is water. Drinking water, in particular, is of utmost significance for all living creatures including man. An examination of the transmission process of drinking water reveals the high importance ...
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(2012-07-16)Matrix acidizing is used in carbonate formations to create wormholes that connect the formation to the wellbore. Hydrochloric acid, organic acids, or mixtures of these acids are typically used in matrix acidizing treatments ...
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Study of an Ionic Liquid as a Corrosion Inhibitor for Pipelines Under a Carbon Dioxide Environment (2020-04-13)In the oil and gas industry, carbon dioxide (CO₂) corrosion is a well-known issue, causing general corrosion and localized corrosion. CO₂ can be dissolved in the aqueous phase, forming carbonic acid (H₂CO₃). This can be ...
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Study of the Corrosion Resistance of Benchmark Coatings Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (2015-04-28)The corrosion resistance of polymer-coated carbon steel exposed to corrosive environment of 3.5% NaCl solution (weight fraction) at ambient conditions was evaluated using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) ...