Technical Strengths
Corrosion Science & Process Engineering Services
Corrosion science and process engineering services technical strengths at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) include:
- Localized corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, and corrosion and life prediction of power plant and piping system materials
- Electrochemistry, localized corrosion, passivity, oxide film analysis and characterization, electrochemical noise analysis, high-temperature reference electrode and pH electrode
- Sensors, online corrosion monitoring, microbially influenced corrosion, chemical industry and nuclear power plant corrosion monitoring
- Microbiological effects on chemistry and corrosion
- Materials stability, computational thermodynamics, electron microscopy, wear, and ceramics
- Electrochemical modeling, life prediction of corroding structures and performance assessment
- Modeling transport processes in electrochemical systems, statistical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, current distribution analysis, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
- Waste form, high-level waste glasses, glass manufacturing, ceramics and high-temperature corrosion
- High-temperature oxidation and corrosion, protective coatings and fabrication effects
Related Terminology
infiltration and recharge • corrosion measurement • stress corrosion cracking kinetics • reactive-transport process modeling • engineering component crevices • porous media • evaluation of effects of biofilms on corrosion • assessment of corrosion in glass melting systems • monitoring of corrosion processes in industrial settings • in situ spectroscopic techniques • high-strain-rate material behavior • high-speed machining
