Materials Degradation & control
Chair(s):
G. Jarjoura and G.J. Kipouros, Dalhousie University, Canada
Financial losses due to materials degradation are about 5% of the GDP of developed countries. In addition to the financial impact, materials degradation often results in serious injuries, loss of life and environmental pollution, which no financial value could be attached to. As a result a better understanding of the corrosion mechanisms and corrosion protection is needed in order to provide useful information to suppliers and users to control corrosion. Corrosion science and engineering can help ensure long, safe service of industrial structures by providing information on materials selection and guidelines for protection. Topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Regulatory aspects of the operation and inspection of pipelines
- Innovative sensor technologies for pipeline real-time monitoring
- Stress corrosion cracking, corrosion fatigue, hydrogen induced cracking
- Fundamental study of new materials and their degradation mechanisms
- Safe service life time analysis for pipelines
- Failure analysis and case studies
- Innovative R & D in metal corrosion theory and mechanisms
- Protection and prevention (surface modification, inhibitors, coatings and cathodic protection)
- Material selection (alloy development and evaluation)
- Techniques used in quality control of corrosion and its mitigation
- Corrosion in lightweight metals
- Corrosion in bleaching equipment, paper machines and recovery boilers
- Wear and erosion degradation
- Innovative repair and rehabilitation technologies.
George Jarjoura, Dalhousie University
george.jarjoura@dal.ca
Sponsored by:
Materials Performance & Integrity Section of MetSoc of CIM
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