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Small angle neutron scattering (SANS) was applied to analyze the degradation of an organic coating layer on steel and for the non-destructive evaluation of the corrosion behavior of the coated steels. The steel was a modified AISI 1004 steel with 1.2% aluminum and 0.8% chromium to improve corrosion resistance. The organic coating layer was epoxy primer, which was painted with about 250-μm thickness on the steel. The organic-coated specimen was subjected to wet-and-dry cyclic corrosion conditions for 112 days in artificial sea water at 40°C. The corrosion potential and the corrosion rate of the steel were −1.1 VSHE and 8.8 × 10−5 A/cm2, respectively. SANS spectra showed that nano-sized defects were not formed in the organic layers after the 112-day wet-and-dry corrosion test. Artificial cracks of the organic layer by X-cutting made corrosion spots of submicron size after a 2-day wet-and-dry corrosion test, which were monitored by SANS.
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Song, C.H., Choi, Y., Shin, E.H. et al. Analysis of organic-coated steels by using small-angle neutron scattering. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 115, 1333–1337 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X14130249
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