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The nonmetallic inclusions are problematic particles that develop during the steel making process. They are tiny entities that exist in high numbers. They disrupt the mechanical homogeneity of the...
25 January 2015 1,038 15 View
The egg is one of the unique feats of natural engineering. Its three-dimensional arch structure can support the weight of a standing human being yet it is so delicate that a baby bird can peck its...
20 April 2014 3,921 3 View
In an aqueous corrosive medium, what are the metallurgical factors in a certain steel microstructure that govern the kinetics (or the rates) of the cathodic reduction of hydrogen protons to...
12 March 2014 7,003 26 View
I am currently reviewing a research paper presenting an electrochemical study on corrosion-enhanced erosion. It attempts to link the CFD of a modeled flow to the corrosion rates of an elbow made...
02 March 2014 7,215 4 View
Last week I posted a question on the relationship between the chloride concentration and CO2 hydration in water. I was thinking that increasing the chloride concentration restricts CO2 hydration...
18 February 2014 4,779 2 View
I am currently running experiments in CO2-saturated solutions of different chloride concentrations to investigate the corrosion behavior of pipeline steels. The solutions' corrosiveness lie in the...
14 February 2014 3,347 10 View
Do the grain boundaries of a regular high-strength steel have something fundamentally to do with the corrosion reactions? chemistry of interface? distributions of anodic vs. cathodic reactions? or...
01 February 2014 850 1 View
Why lowering the pH increases the corrosion rates? lowering the pH increases the rates of cathodic reduction, so how this increases the rates of anodic reactions?
01 February 2014 6,302 7 View
In other words; Is the mechanism of carbon steel pitting in chloride solutions different from that in bicarbonate solutions?
01 February 2014 6,347 1 View
What can long-term open-circuit potentials indicate?
01 February 2014 9,800 2 View
I am doing corrosion experiments in CO2-saturated solutions of different NaCl concentrations and I need a table that correlates the pH with the chloride concentration.
21 January 2014 5,756 3 View
Can we immerse the sample in an aerated solution in a cell, seal it, and then de-oxygenate it with a continuous flow of N2 for about 30 min during which a potentiostatic conditioning (at -2 V vs....
20 January 2014 7,753 3 View
Some journals on ScienceDirect started to offer this new service, How would that reflect on the merit of the article?
20 January 2014 8,490 1 View
Please have a look at this figure, does it ever reflect that an EIS measurement has been made at t=5000 s and at t=10,000 s?
17 January 2014 5,228 6 View
For what systems [a material and a solution] should the EIS scan preferably be scanned from the highest to the lowest, or from the lowest to the highest frequencies? Does that have something to do...
10 January 2014 6,677 4 View
Wouldn't that make the review process more efficient (and probably more genuine)?
30 December 2013 2,579 15 View
Is there a special type of epoxy to embed the samples in for high-pressure, high-temperature corrosion testing?
10 November 2013 1,684 1 View
What are the difficulties that a graduate student face in physics when writing a research paper for the first time?
05 November 2013 8,006 4 View
Is funding necessary for broad research collaboration?
05 November 2013 5,700 9 View
What are the most traditional factors/qualifications/contributions that make authors assume editorial roles?
02 November 2013 365 59 View
Is it difficult to categorize the roles an author in a multi-authored paper had? Like for example (analysis, experiments, review, etc.), to be introduced in the affiliations of the authors?
02 November 2013 7,713 5 View
Which is more significant when it comes to the corrosion rates of iron in deoxygenated solutions, a lower pH, or a higher chloride concentration? And how are they related? does the former...
31 October 2013 8,769 5 View
From a conventional maintenance-wise point of view?
31 October 2013 9,555 5 View
How can you speed up the subtly related processes (submission/review/acceptance/publication) of publishing an article? What is the rate-determining (slowest) step?
31 October 2013 359 8 View
Can we articulate general correlations between the corrosion rates of iron and the pH in deoxygenated solutions of different chemical compositions?
30 October 2013 9,244 4 View
The cathodic roles of O2 are well established for iron during a potentiodynamic scan, but does it drive a specific anodic reaction? Why? Or why not?
29 October 2013 6,073 4 View
By color, or morphology, can we detect the difference between Fe2O3 and FeCO3 in the cross section of a corrosion layer formed in CO2 solutions?
24 October 2013 6,258 1 View
Is it possible to distinguish between Fe2O3 and Fe3O4 and/or FeCO3 when analyzing the cross section of a corrosion layer formed on a steel corroded in bicarbonate or CO2 solutions?
24 October 2013 7,758 1 View
Can anyone explain why the current density during a potentiodynamic scan increases with the scan rate?
22 October 2013 6,738 5 View
Under partial pressures no higher than 50 psi of CO2, Can we detect FeCO3 in the corrosion products forming atop a steel sample immersed in an autoclave environment at high temperatures (~100 C) ?...
22 October 2013 5,733 3 View
Under what circumstances will there be oxygen in a multiphase oil (or gas) pipeline flow?
21 October 2013 3,644 2 View
What are the kinetic and passivational roles of carbonate during the corrosion of iron (or steel) in a carbonate-based environment?
20 October 2013 6,469 6 View
Suitable time of immersion to measure the corrosion rates of steel in an autoclave containing high-pressure CO2-bicarbonate solutions. If we have around 20 coupons, and we want to measure their...
19 October 2013 2,684 9 View
Chloride and CO2 corrosion
11 October 2013 9,516 1 View
