Corrosion monitoring by electrochemical noise

Abstract

Some selected problems of various corrosion types detection by electrochemical noise measurements and analysis werepresented. The main advantage of this method are measurements of spontaneous fluctuations without additional external polarization. The method can monitor corrosion without interfering its rate and corrosion type. The proposed method of corrosion rate estimation were presented separately for some practical cases (corrosion of pipes in water supplysystem, corrosion of concrete reinforcement) by applying the prepared measurement system.

Keywords

corrosion, monitoring, electrochemical noise

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