《Corrosion behavior of 2195 and 1420 Al-Li alloys in neutral 3.5% NaCl solution under tensile stress》.pdfVIP

Corrosion behavior of 2195 and 1420 Al-Li alloys in neutral 3.5% NaCl solution under tensile stress LI Jin-feng(李劲风), CHEN Wen-jing(陈文敬), ZHAO Xu-shan(赵旭山), REN Wen-da(任文达) , ZHENG Zi-qiao(郑子樵) School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China Received 24 November 2005; accepted 3 March 2006 Abstract: The corrosion behaviors of 1420 and 2195 Al-Li alloys under 308 and 490 MPa tensile stress respectively in neutral 3.5% NaCl solution were investigated using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy(EIS) and scanning electron microscope(SEM). It is found that the unstressed 1420 alloy is featured with large and discrete pits, while general corrosion and localized corrosion including intergranular corrosion and pitting corrosion occur on the unstressed 2195 alloy. As stress is applied to 1420 alloy, the pit becomes denser and its size is decreased. While, for the stressed 2195 alloy, intergranular corrosion is greatly aggravated and severe general corrosion is developed from connected pits. The EIS analysis shows that more severe general corrosion and localized corrosion occur on the stressed 2195 Al-Li alloy than on 1420 Al-Li alloy. It is suggested that tensile stress has greater effect on the corrosion of 2195 Al-Li alloy than on 1420 Al-Li alloy. Key words: 1420 Al-Li alloy; 2195 Al-Li alloys; corrosion; tensile stress conditions of free stress. 1 Introduction Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is an efficient method to study electrochemical corrosion. It