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Pitting Behaviors Of Passivated And Trans-Passivated 304 Stainless Steel, Jing Shen, Zi-Ming Wang, Da-Jiang Zheng, Guang-Ling Song Dec 2020

Pitting Behaviors Of Passivated And Trans-Passivated 304 Stainless Steel, Jing Shen, Zi-Ming Wang, Da-Jiang Zheng, Guang-Ling Song

Journal of Electrochemistry

In order to further understand the passivation and trans-passivation behaviors of 304 stainless steels, the samples were pretreated under different polarization potentials and their corrosion behaviors were investigated. It was found that the pitting potential of the untreated sample was the same as that of the sample treated with 1.1 V trans-passivation potential, while the pitting potential of the sample treated with 0.5 V passivation treatment was the highest. This observation was further verified by the SKP results. According to SEM observations, the surface of the untreated sample preserved a polishing morphology, while the surface of the 0.5 V passivation …


The Electrochemical And Corrosion Study Of Copper For Nuclear Waste Containers Under Deep Geological Disposal Conditions, Mengnan Guo Oct 2020

The Electrochemical And Corrosion Study Of Copper For Nuclear Waste Containers Under Deep Geological Disposal Conditions, Mengnan Guo

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

The proposed method for the safe disposal of Swedish, Finnish, and Canadian high-level nuclear waste (HLNW) is to isolate it in iron or steel containers with an outer copper (Cu) shell or coating and bury it in a deep geological repository (DGR). Copper has been selected as the corrosion barrier due to its stability in the aqueous anoxic environments anticipated in DGR conditions. The container will initially be exposed to humid aerated conditions which will evolve to cool and anoxic as radiation fields in the fuel decay and heat production ceases. When the DGR is cool and anoxic, sulphide (SH …


Carbon Oxidation At The Atomic Level: A Computational Study On Oxidative Graphene Etching And Pitting Of Graphitic Carbon Surfaces, Simon Schmitt Jan 2020

Carbon Oxidation At The Atomic Level: A Computational Study On Oxidative Graphene Etching And Pitting Of Graphitic Carbon Surfaces, Simon Schmitt

Theses and Dissertations--Mechanical Engineering

In order to understand the oxidation of solid carbon materials by oxygen-containing gases, carbon oxidation has to be studied on the atomic level where the surface reactions occur. Graphene and graphite are etched by oxygen to form characteristic pits that are scattered across the material surface, and pitting in turn leads to microstructural changes that determine the macroscopic oxidation behavior. While this is a well-documented phenomenon, it is heretofore poorly understood due to the notorious difficulty of experiments and a lack of comprehensive computational studies. The main objective of the present work is the development of a computational framework from …