Print Email Facebook Twitter Combined Corrosion and Wear of Aluminium Alloy 7075-T6 Title Combined Corrosion and Wear of Aluminium Alloy 7075-T6 Author Liu, Y. Mol, J.M.C. Janssen, G.C.A.M. Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Department Precision and Microsystems Engineering Date 2016-04-05 Abstract The aluminium alloy 7075-T6 is widely used in engineering. In some applications, like slurry transport, corrosion and abrasion occur simultaneously, resulting in early material failure. In the present work, we investigated the combined effect of corrosion and wear on the aluminium alloy 7075-T6. We performed two series of wear experiments to vary the conditions and severity of corrosion environment: chemically by using ethanol, deionized water and seawater, and electrochemically by applying various potentials using a potentiostat in seawater. Results show that, in seawater, the wear rate was higher than in deionized and ethanol; and in the potentiostat experiments, at the anodic potentials, the wear rates were higher than at the open circuit potential and the cathodic potentials. Seawater is the most corrosive one among the three liquids and the corrosion products can be easily removed. When applying anodic potentials, corrosion is accelerated, and the higher wear rate confirms that higher corrosion rate leads to higher wear rate due to the formation and removal of corrosion products during tribocorrosion. Subject aluminium alloyelectrochemistrywearcorrosion To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7467df11-a051-4393-ab61-0d5c1ea8ca97 Publisher Springer ISSN 2198-4220 Source https://doi.org/10.1007/s40735-016-0042-3 Source Journal of Bio- and Tribo-Corrosion, 2, 2016 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2016 The Author(s)This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Files PDF Liu_2016.pdf 1.36 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7467df11-a051-4393-ab61-0d5c1ea8ca97/datastream/OBJ/view