CORROSION BEHAVIOUR OF Al AND Al ALLOYS （铝的腐蚀行为和Al合金）.pdfVIP

Solid State Science and Technology, Vol. 16, No 1 (2008) 175-180 ISSN 0128-7389 CORROSION BEHAVIOUR OF Al AND Al ALLOYS CONTAINING Zn, Sn AND Cu IN SEAWATER 1 1 Siti Radiah Mohd Kamarudin , Muhamad Daud , Abd. Razak Daud2 1Malaysian Nuclear Agency (Nuclear Malaysia) Bangi, 43000 Kajang, MALAYSIA 2Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia ABSTRACT The corrosion behaviour of aluminium (Al) alloys in seawater medium was investigated using potentiodynamic technique, complemented by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and EDAX. SEM was carried out to characterize the corroded surface and to observe the extent of corrosion attack on the Al alloys tested in seawater. EDAX analysis was used to identify elements present on the specimen surface. The results indicate that zinc (Zn), stanum (Sn) and copper (Cu) as alloying elements enhance corrosion behaviour of the aluminium in seawater by shifting the potential to a more negative value. In the presence of those elements, the Al alloys becomes more active, having potential of more than –1.0 VSCE and showed active corrosion behaviour. INTRODUCTION It is known that the addition of certain elements to aluminium, such as mercury (Hg), gallium (Ga), stanum (Sn), indium (In), magnesium (Mg), zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd) and barium (Ba) results in alloys with more anodic potentials than unalloyed aluminium (Al) [1]. On the exposure to the atmosp