Some Aspects of the Corrosion Resistance of Aluminium Alloys in a Marine Atmosphere

Abstract

In this article a resume is given of the principal obsevations made during the course of exposure in a natural atmosphere during some twenty years, while choosing the most characteristic examples. The following points will be examined: Resistance to spray and mist of aluminium‐magnesium, aluminium‐magnesium‐silicon, aluminium‐ zinc‐magnesium, and aluminium‐copper magnesium rolled alloys, and of cast alloys; Behaviour of welds, and of contacts with steel and cement; Behaviour during immersion in the sea, and corrosion by differential aeration; Protection by anodisation. These observations have been made during exposure at the experimental stations of the Pechiney Group, in marine atmospheres at Salin‐de‐Giraud (Mediterranean), Saint‐Jean‐de‐Luz, Biarritz and Ostend, and in an industrial atmosphere at Aubervilliers.

Citation

Guilhaudis, A. (1975), "Some Aspects of the Corrosion Resistance of Aluminium Alloys in a Marine Atmosphere", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 22 No. 3, pp. 12-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006978