Journal
METALS
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/met12040666
Keywords
PH stainless steel; passivation baths; electrochemical noise; electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
Funding
- Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) [A1-S-8882]
- Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (UANL)
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Custom 450 stainless steel and AM 350 stainless steel are both precipitation hardening stainless steels widely used in aerospace applications. Passivated CUSTOM 450 stainless steel exhibited the best corrosion behavior, while AM 350 stainless steel is suitable for applications requiring high strength and corrosion resistance simultaneously.
Custom 450 stainless steel and AM 350 stainless steel are both precipitation hardening stainless steels, which are widely used in a variety of aerospace applications. The former steel exhibits very good corrosion resistance with moderate strength, whereas the latter is used for applications requiring high strength along with corrosion resistance. In this study, the corrosion behavior of CUSTOM 450 and AM 350 stainless steels passivated in (a) citric acid and (b) nitric acid solutions for 50 and 75 min at 49 and 70 degrees C, and subsequently exposed in 5 wt. % NaCl and 1 wt. % H2SO4 solutions are investigated. Two electrochemical techniques were used: electrochemical noise (EN) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) according to ASTM G199-09 and ASTM G106-13, respectively. The results indicated that passivation in nitric acid made the surface prone to localized corrosion. Statistical and PSD values showed a tendency toward pitting corrosion. On the whole, passivated CUSTOM 450 stainless steel showed the best corrosion behavior in both, NaCl and H2SO4 test solutions.
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