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Characterization of Corrosion Products on Steel Surfaces

This book entitled “Characterization of Corrosion Products on Steel Surfaces” is published as the seventh volume in the series of “Advances in Materials Research” edited by Professors Yoshio Waseda and Shigeru Suzuki. The book is composed of twelve chapters, the contents of which together try both to solve the currently important basic problems in corrosion and to contribute
to the steel making industries in the realization of substantially better process engineering. It will contribute to society worldwide “for preventing environmental degradation” which the editors stressed as the subtitle of the book.
The book contains recent high level research results starting from the fundamental mechanism of corrosion to various measurement tools which are used for characterization to reveal the structures of corrosion products both statically and dynamically. As series editor, I would like to thank Dr. Claus Aschelon of Springer-Verlag, who has always had interest in and kindly taken care of our research activity by encouraging publication in this series of books.

It is well known that corrosion products, i.e. rust, on iron and steel surfaces cannot be assigned a typical crystallographic structure with long-range order. In fact, the structure of rust is considered to be very complicated, and some forms of rust are assigned to the amorphous state for this reason. Accurate information about the atomic-scale structure of rust is important to shed light on corrosion mechanisms of metallic materials. And, since life of steel structures is often dominated by environmental degradation or corrosion of the surface, the structure of the rust formed on iron and steel surfaces during prolonged exposure to air is of great interest. This book describes the fundamental aspects of materials characterization for the ferric oxyhydroxides formed on steel surfaces. Selected examples, from both the basic science and the applied engineering points of view, are presented. Of special interest is the new structural information on ferric oxyhydroxides containing a small amount of alloying elements. The text relates this to their various states and their role in corrosion processes. This monograph will serve as a valuable guide and source of information for specialists and non-specialists alike.

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