COURSE LAYOUT
Week 1: Introduction: - Electrochemical Polarization: Activation and Concentration polarization and Mixed Potential Theory (Recap)
Week 2: Corrosion events and Mixed Potential Theory - Understanding of corrosion event on the basis of mixed potential theory: Activation controlled and concentration controlled corrosion
Week 3: Corrosion events and Mixed Potential Theory - Understanding of corrosion event on the basis of mixed potential theory:Activation controlled and concentration controlled corrosion
Week 4: Protection of Metals and Alloys and Mixed Potential Theory - Cathodic protection: Sacrificial anode and Impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) - Industrial application and calculations
Protection of Metals and Alloys: Part II - Metal composition and structure -Environmental control over corrosion - Coating - Inhibitor
Week 5: Corrosion experiments - Potentiodynamic test - Galvanostatic test - Linear polarization - Immersion test - Salt fog test
Week 6: Stress effect on corrosion - Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) - Corrosion fatigue - Hydrogen embrittlement
Week 7: Oxidation of Metals and Alloys - Pilling Bedworth Ratio - Thermodynamics of oxidation: Ellingham diagram
Week 8: Oxidation of Metals and Alloys - Kinetics of oxidation - Effect of doping on the oxidation behavior
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