Like a hidden enemy, pitting corrosion attacks metal surfaces, making it difficult to detect and control. This type of corrosion, primarily caused by prolonged contact with seawater in nature, is ...

A photo taken by a scanning electron microscope shows a pit at the surface of an additively manufactured (3D-printed) stainless steel part. Credit: Thomas Voisin. Like a hidden enemy, pitting ...

Corrosion: Nanoscale glimpse of crevice and pitting corrosion as it happens. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 09 / 170914152221.htm ...

The material can succumb to so-called pitting corrosion, in which highly localized defects weaken the steel, often with disastrous consequences for applications such as industrial pipes and tanks.

Researchers delved into the mysterious world of pitting corrosion in 3D-printed stainless steel 316L. Copper $ 5.2025 / lb 3.09% Brent Crude Oil $ 68.56 / bbl 2.01% ...

New deterministic and stochastic models for external pitting corrosion in underground pipelines can help improve integrity and reliability analyses. This concluding article applies these models to ...

Corrosion pitting caused roughly 70% of external corrosion-related hazardous liquid spills and gas leaks in cross-country European oil and gas pipelines from the early 1970s through the mid-2000s ...

“Corrosion has been a major problem for a very long time,” said UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor Jacob Israelachvili. Particularly in confined spaces — thin gaps between machine parts, ...

By unraveling the mechanisms behind the slags and their relationship to pitting corrosion, engineers and manufacturers can strive to create stainless steel components that are not only strong and ...