SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1988
STP26013S

Synthetic Versus Natural Marine Environments for Corrosion Testing

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Comparison of synthetic and natural marine environments is the subject of this paper. The synthetic environments discussed include salt spray or fog, acetic acid salt spray and copper accelerated acetic acid salt spray. Results from corrosion tests conducted in these synthetic or simulated environments are compared to corrosion test results in natural seawater and the marine atmosphere. Laboratory and/or synthetic solutions can and often do rank or predict the relative performance or behavior of a given material, but when their results are compared to the behavior of materials in the natural environment, the investigator must use all of the available data before characterizing performance.

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Money, KL
La Que Center for Corrosion Technology, Inc., Wrightsville Beach, NC
Kain, RM
La Que Center for Corrosion Technology, Inc., Wrightsville Beach, NC
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Developed by Committee: G01
Pages: 205–216
DOI: 10.1520/STP26013S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5042-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-0977-3