Degradation of the corrosion resistance of anodic oxide films through immersion in the anodising electrolyte

M. García-Rubio, P. Ocón, M. Curioni, G. E. Thompson, P. Skeldon, A. Lavía, I. García

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    Abstract

    The deterioration of AA2024, AA6061 and AA7475 anodised in an environmentally-compliant tartaric acid/sulphuric acid electrolyte has been examined as a function of the immersion time in the electrolyte after termination of anodising. By transmission electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, degradation of the porous oxide film was qualitatively observed on AA2024. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy revealed that AA2024 and AA7075 were more sensitive to prolonged immersion in the anodising electrolyte compared with AA6061, due to increased barrier layer thinning rates and increased susceptibility to localized corrosion. Salt spray tests confirmed the previous, indicating decay of anticorrosion performance for AA2024 and AA7075. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)2219-2227
    Number of pages8
    JournalCorrosion Science
    Volume52
    Issue number7
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jul 2010

    Keywords

    • A. Acid solutions
    • A. Alloy
    • A. Aluminium
    • B. EIS
    • C. Acid corrosion
    • C. Anodic films

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