Abstract
Corrosion science and technology can provide significant monetary gains to industries in the UK, which are motivated by the need to improve their capital productivity, operational reliability, efficiency, and performance of physical assets. The corrosion control technology not only increases the economic life cycle and performance of a material, but also reduces the overall cost of the technical system. Corrosion can be effectively controlled through intercepting with the material or environment by four methods, namely electrochemical modification, chemical modification of the environment, application of a protective coating, and appropriate selection and design of material. Most of the modern high performance protective coatings are polymer systems with a carefully balanced selection of components developed to provide an essential range of functional properties. Various asset management approaches such as Stress-Corrosion Cracking (SCC) can be applied to different industries thereby enhancing the useful life of materials.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 19-21 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Materials World |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2007 |