Characterization of pitting corrosion of 7A60 （描述的点状腐蚀7室a60）.pdf

Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc. China 24(2014) 3907−3916 Characterization of pitting corrosion of 7A60 aluminum alloy by EN and EIS techniques Xue-hui WANG1,2, Ji-hui WANG1,2, Cong-wei FU2 1. State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; 2. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China Received 17 October 2013; accepted 17 November 2014 Abstract: The pitting corrosion behaviors of 7A60 aluminum alloy in the retrogression and re-aging (RRA) temper were investigated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and electrochemical noise (EN) techniques, and the microstructure and the second phase content of the alloy were observed and determined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS). The results show that there exist two different corrosion stages for 7A60 alloy in 3.5% NaCl solution, and the corrosion process can be detected by the appearance of EIS spectrum with two capacitive time constants and the wavelet fractal dimension D extracted from EN. SEM and EDS results also demonstrate that severe pitting corrosion in 7A60 alloy is mainly caused by electrochemical active MgZn particles, secondly by Al MgCu and Mg Si. Al Cu Fe particles make little contribution to the 2 2 2 7 2 pitting corrosion of 7A60 alloy. Key words: 7A60 aluminum alloy; constituent particles; pitting corrosion; electrochemical im