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Corrosion

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    Students successfully completing MDP 454 will gain the following: ● Understanding the electrochemical nature of corrosion ● Identifying the different corrosion mechanisms in wet and dry atmospheres. ● Determine the different factors affecting the corrosion of metals and alloys. ● Distinguish between the different types of corrosion. ● High-temperature oxidation of metals and alloys. ● The different methods used for material protection against corrosion. ● The ability to investigate and analyze corrosion failures.
  • Course Goals
  • Clean Water and Sanitation
  • Affordable and Clean Energy
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Climate Action

Requirements

PHM241

Description

  • English Description

    Introduction, corrosion types, atmospheric corrosion, principles of cathodic protection, corrosion by soils, corrosion by water and steam, localized corrosion, fundamentals of inhibitors, stress corrosion, metallurgical factors affecting corrosion, at high temperature, alloy behavior at high temperature, coatings, corrosion testing, materials for corrosive environments, analysis of corrosion failure.
  • Arabic Description

    Introduction, corrosion types, atmospheric corrosion, principles of cathodic protection, corrosion by soils, corrosion by water and steam, localized corrosion, fundamentals of inhibitors, stress corrosion, metallurgical factors affecting corrosion, at high temperature, alloy behavior at high temperature, coatings, corrosion testing, materials for corrosive environments, analysis of corrosion failure.
  • Department
    Design and Production Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (25) + tr.Major Assessment (25 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 10% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 20% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + tr.Oral/Practical (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 1
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
  • a. Course notes
  • - Developed by course instructors.
  • b. Essential books (textbooks)
  • - Mars G. Fontana, Corrosion Engineering, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0070214637, 1985.
  • - Pedeferri Pietro, Corrosion Science and Engineering, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, ISBN 978-3-319-97625-9, 2018. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-97625-9 )
  • c. Web sites
  • - https://www.corrosion-doctors.org/
  • - https://www.nace.org/home
  • - https://www.journals.elsevier.com/corrosion-science