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Field Exposure Results on Trends in Atmospheric Corrosion and Pollution Pages: 14 Published: Jan 2002
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View License Agreement Source: STP1421-EB Abstract The International Co-operative Programme on Effects on Materials including Historic and Cultural Monuments (ICP Materials) is an extensive field exposure programme within the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN ECE). In its network of test sites, which presently includes 30 test sites in 14 European countries and in Israel, the United States and Canada, several one-year exposures of unalloyed carbon steel, zinc, copper, cast bronze, limestone and steel panel with alkyd paint have been performed during the period 198797. The present work summarizes and analyses the one-year exposures for trend effects in Europe and, in particular, quantifies the part of the trend attributable to changes in sulfur dioxide concentration. SO is the largest single contributing factor to the decreasing corrosion trends. The decreasing H in precipitation is also a contributing factor, its effect is, however, much smaller than that of dry deposition. In addition to the ICP Materials results, long term trend examples of zinc and carbon steel corrosion and SO concentration for the period 19461997 are shown for Stockholm, Moscow, Prague and Kopisty.
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