Abstract
The electrochemical behavior of a high-strength secondary hardening steel, AF1410, has been investigated with and without a cadmium-plate coating. During anodic polarization, the anodic behavior of AF1410 was shown to be slightly dependent on the manufacturing process. AF1410 showed no indication of localized corrosion in the chloride solution, however evidence of uniform corrosion was observed after polarization measurements. Cadmium plated AF1410 exhibits an active/passive transition behavior and exhibited no significant galvanic coupling effect with the cadmium plate coating.