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245 0 0 _aFactors Contributing to Corrosion of Steel Pilings in Duluth-Superior Harbor
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_cnov. 2009
270 _a07/07/2010 ; 07/07/2010
300 _a11 p. ; 707-717
520 _aTranscripción del resumen del autor. Field observations and laboratory testing were used to conclude that aggressive localized corrosion of carbon steel pilings in Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin, is caused by the following sequence of biological, chemical, and physical events. Iron-oxidizing bacteria colonize the carbon steel sheet pilings and produce tubercles, made up of intact and/or partly degraded remains of bacterial cells mixed with amorphous hydrous ferric oxides. The reducing conditions beneath the tubercles cause copper dissolved in the water to precipitate. A galvanic couple is established between the copper layer and the iron substratum. Ice scouring breaks the tubercles. Exposure of the copper-covered iron to oxygen causes the galvanic current to increase. The result is aggressive localized corrosion.
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773 0 _tCorrosion
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942 _cARTICULO
100 1 _aRay, R.
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100 1 _aLee, J.
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100 1 _aLittle, B.
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