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Effect of Salinity, Total Dissolved Solids, Conductivity, and pH on Corrosion Behavior of Different Microstructures Made from High-Carbon Rail Steel

Authors: Kirtiratan Godbole, K. Mondal

Published in: Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance | Issue 7/2022

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The work discusses the effect of salinity, conductivity, total dissolved solids (TDS), and pH on corrosion behavior of bainite, martensite, and tempered martensite steels made from high-carbon rail steel using austempering, water quenching, and tempering of quenched steel, respectively. Immersion test in freely aerated 3.5% NaCl solution was carried out for 5-28 days. Even though the salinity and conductivity increase with decrease in pH with time, the increased TDS and α/γ* ratio, wherein α designates weight fraction of α-FeOOH, and γ* represents the combination of the weight proportions of γ-FeOOH and β-FeOOH rust phases finally induce enhanced corrosion resistance to the steels irrespective of their microstructure. In addition, the steel with bainitic microstructure shows better corrosion resistance than the other two steels.

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Title: Effect of Salinity, Total Dissolved Solids, Conductivity, and pH on Corrosion Behavior of Different Microstructures Made from High-Carbon Rail Steel
Authors: Kirtiratan Godbole
K. Mondal
Publication date: 07-02-2022
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance / Issue 7/2022
Print ISSN: 1059-9495
Electronic ISSN: 1544-1024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-022-06630-w

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