Review questions for Corrosion engineering viva-voice:

1. Define the following terms:

a) Corrosion
b) Corrosion resistance
c) Corrosion damage
d) Atmosphere corrosion
e) Marine corrosion
f) Uniform corrosion
g) Localized corrosion
h) Types of electrodes
i) Sheardizing
j) Anodizing
k) Selective leaching
l) Galvanic corrosion
m) Fretting corrosion
n) Triple-layer rust
o) Sensitization
p)
2. Difference between the following terms:
a) Dry corrosion & wet corrosion
b) Electrolytic cell & electrochemical cell
c) Activation polarization & concentration polarization
d) Activation polarization & passivation polarization
e) Hydrogen electrode & standard hydrogen electrode
f) EMF series & Galvanic series
g) Atmospheric corrosion & high-temperature corrosion
h) Equilibrium electrode potential & Electrode active potential
i) Environmental aspects of corrosion & Meallurgical aspects of corrosion
j) Sacrificial anodic protection & Impression current protection
 k) Sacrificial anodic coatings & noble metal coatings
l) Metal coatings & pain coatings
m) Characteristics differences between hot dip coatings, Electoplating, and electroless
platings?
n) White-rust & red-rust
o) Coating & lining differences
p) Chemical corrosion and Electrochemical corrosion
q) Intergranular-SCC and Transgranular-SCC
r) High-temperature attack & hydrogen blistering
s) SCC & hydrogen embrittlement
t)
3. Why metals do corrode more readily compared to other materials?
4. How corrosion can occurs in plastics, ceramics?
5. What is the use of standard electrodes?
6. All forms of corrosion & factors affecting each forms of corrosion?
7. Major type of corrosion damages in petrochemical industries?
8. Major type of corrosion damages in marine industries?
9. Major type of corrosion damages in power-plant industries?
10. Major type of corrosion damages in cement industries?
11. Major type of corrosion damages in sewage/water transport pipe industries?
12. Major type of corrosion damages in construction industries?
13. If a metal is corroded then what kind of properties (Physical, chemical or mechanical)
properties do effected? Explain
14. Metallurgical aspects- effect of alloying in passivation behavior, crevice control, pitting
control, stress-corrosion cracking, hydrogen-damage, corrosion-fatigue, erosion-
corrosion?
15. Name the steel-alloys resistant to crevice corrosion, pitting corrosion, intergranular
corrosion?
16. Methods to measure corrosion rate?
 17. List of Corrosion control & preventive methods?
18. Purpose of clear zinc, yellow-zinc, black-zinc, acid-zinc coatings with examples?
19. Purpose of bright -/ satin-/ clear-/ yellow-/black-chrome platings?
20. Purpose of bright-/semi-bright -/low-sulfur nickel coatings?
21. How to inspect uniform thinning of a metal for uniform corrosion identification?
22. If a electrochemical cell potential, Ecell > 0, then what could be flow of electrons
direction and cell reaction could be spontaneous or non-spontaneous?
23. If a electrochemical cell potential, Ecell < 0, then what could be flow of electrons
direction and cell reaction could be spontaneous or non-spontaneous?
24. How moisture level can affect atmospheric corrosion?
25. How to inspect/identify crevice damage / pitting damage?
26. How to differentiate crevice damage from pitting damage?
27. What are sources of stresses for Stress corrosion cracking (SCC)?
28. Types of SCC?
29. PREN16 or PREN30 number of Stainless steels?
30. Which type of stainless steels: ferritic/austenitic/martensitic steels do sensitize more
readily? Why?
31. Calculate PREN number of stainless steel ASTM 316?
32.

Standard test methods for corrosion:

1. ASTM A262 - practices for detecting susceptibility to intergranular attack in austenitic

stainless steel.
2. ASTM G28 - test methods for detecting susceptibility to intergranular attack in wrought,
nickel-rich, chromium-bearing alloys.
3. ASTM G34 - test method for exfoliation corrosion susceptibility in 2xxx and 7xxx series
aluminum alloys (EXCO Test).
4. ASTM G66 - test method for visual assessment of exfoliation corrosion susceptibility of
5xxx series aluminum alloys (Asset Test).
5. ASTM G67 - test method for determining the susceptibility to intergranular corrosion of
5xxx series aluminum alloys by mass loss after exposure to nitric acid (Namlt Test).
6. Huey test. It is the nitric acid test described in ASTM A262-68 practice.
7. Acid ferric sulfate test. It is described in ASTM designation A262-68.
8. Strauss test. It consists of exposing a sampleto a boiling solution of 6 wt% CUSO4 +16
wt% H2S04 for a period of 72 h.
9. Streicher test. It consists of electrolyticallyetching in a polished sample (3% grid paper)
in a room temperature solution consisting of 100 g of H2C2O4, 2H20 dissolved in 900 ml
of distilled water. The current required is 0.1 A/cm2 for 15 min. It is described as ASTM
designation A262-68 Practice A. Coating weight requirements: given in ASTM A-
123andASTMA-153.
10. ASTM Designation G5. Annual Book of Standards, Vol. 03, 02. Test Method for Making
Potentiostatic and Potentiodynamic Anodic Polarization Measurement.
11. ASTM Designation G31. Annual Book of Standards, Vol. 03, 02. Laboratory Immersion
Corrosion Testing of Metals.
12. ASTM Designation G59. Annual Book of Standards, Vol. 03, 02. Standard Practice for
Conducting Potentiodynamic Polarization Resistance Measurements.
13. ANSI/ASTM Designation G51. Annual Book of Standards, Vol. 02, 03. Conducting
Cyclic Potentiodynamic Polarization Measurement for Localized Corrosion.
14. ASTM Designation G4. Recommended Practice for Conducting Plant Corrosion Tests.
15. NACE Standard TM0169-76. Laboratory Corrosion Testing of Metals for the Process
Industry.
16. ASTM STP-665, Stress Corrosion Cracking, The Slow Strain Rate Technique, STP-665,
1977.
17. ASTM G48. Standard Method for Pitting and Crevice Corrosion Resistance of Stainless
Steels and Related Alloys by use of Ferric Chloride Solution.
18. The use of electrochemical potential to determine the areas of corrosion in reinforcing
steels is described in ASTM Standard ASTMC876-91.
19. The EIS technique (Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy) described earlier. ASTM
Test C1202-94 can be used to determine concrete resistivity.
20. ASTM C876 (2001). Standard Test Method for Half Cell. Potentials of Uncoated
Reinforcing in Concrete, 452-457.
21. ASTM G59 (1994). Standard Reference Method for Conducting Potentiodynamic
Polarization Resistance Measurement, ASTM Annual Book ofStandards,Vol.02,03.
22. ASTM G5 (1994). Standard Reference Test Method for Making Potentiostatic and
Potentiodynamic Anode Polarization Measurement, ASTM Annual Book of Standards,
Vol. 02, 03.