The Corrosion Group
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The 24th Annual Short Course
August 9-14, 2020
COVID-19 notice
The 2020 Penn State Short Course on Corrosion, scheduled for August 9-14, 2020 has been canceled as part of Penn State’s efforts to maintain public health and safety in the face of the coronavirus outbreak. This decision was made with your health and the well-being of our community in mind.
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Overview
The course will cover the fundamentals of corrosion and various electrochemical techniques. Lectures and laboratories will be used to illustrate how electrochemical techniques are applied, when they should be used, and how the various techniques can be integrated to solve complex problems. The course will be useful for people entering the corrosion field and for professionals looking for a refresher course.
Lecture Topics
- Thermodynamics of corrosion
- Kinetics of corrosion
- Polarization
- Corrosion rate measurement techniques
- Passivity/localized corrosion
- Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
- Scanning probe methods for evaluating corrosion
- Statistical analysis of corrosion data
- Corrosion inhibitors
Laboratory and Demonstration Topics
- Corrosion potential measurements
- Polarization resistance
- Potentiostatic and potentiodynamic polarization
- Galvanic corrosion
- Pitting (including scratch techniques, metastable pitting, and critical pitting temperature)
- Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)
- Electrochemical noise analysis
Laboratory Practice Sessions
- Cell design
- Sample preparation
- Experimental techniques
- Practical examples
