The Effects of Sour Candy

The Minnesota Dental Association has started a campaign to combat the effects of acidic drinks and candies on tooth corrosion. They've compiled a chart of listing several popular sour candies, some of which are more acidic than battery acid. More details here.

Watching Paint Dry

Amazing video of paint drying under a microscope.

PRCI and NACE Sign a Memorandum of Understanding

Building further on a long-standing relationship between PRCI (Pipeline Research Council, Inc.) and NACE International, the two organizations have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to foster activities that will serve their common interests in developing and disseminating technical information related to corrosion on energy pipelines. THE MOU also provides a framework for working cooperatively to advance these goals for the mutual benefit of their memberships. The MOU formalizes this important relationship with one of the primary standards development organizations that utilizes and applies PRCI's corrosion research results in developing the standards for integrity management of pipeline systems.

From the PRCI Newsletter Throughput Volume 4, Issue 1

ASM, ASTM and NACE launch Corrosion Solutions Center

Corrosion Solutions Center is the world's most comprehensive and authoritative resource for researching, understanding, preventing, and solving corrosion-related problems.

This robust product is brought to you by a partnership between the leading corrosion engineering society, NACE International, the leading materials information society, ASM International and one of the largest voluntary standards development organizations in the world, ASTM International. Corrosion Solutions Center allows us to bring more value to you, eliminating the need for multiple site-searches.

By partnering and bringing together content from each organization, we're able to provide a single resource for corrosion-related materials information including:

Journal articles - content from leading materials industry journals, including Corrosion journal
Book chapters- articles from the most relevant technical books
Handbook articles - articles from the ASM Handbook collection
Standards - NACE International standards covering subjects such as laboratory corrosion testing, corrosion prevention and blast cleaning
Magazine articles – ASM's Advanced Materials & Processes and NACE's Materials Performance magazine articles
Conference Papers – papers from leading industry conferences
Technical Papers – white papers and reports from government and industry research


http://content.asminternational.org/portal/site/corrosioncenter/

Corrosion Solutions provides authoritative, peer-reviewed information from leading organizations serving the materials performance community.

2009 Department of Defense Corrosion Conference

U.S. Representative Betty Sutton (D, Ohio) provided the keynote speech at the 2009 Department of Defense Corrosion Conference banquet. The five-day Corrosion Conference commenced at the Gaylord National Hotel near Washington DC on August 10. See photos on Congresswoman Sutton's site here.

Investigating Corrosion Protection of Offshore Wind Towers

An interesting article about the possible future of power here. Offshore windfarms bring a number of unique corrosion problems.

In this article (PDF, 1.5M), Investigating Corrosion Protection of Offshore Wind Towers, the authors report on testing the coating performance on offshore wind towers. This is part two of a three-part series.

From JPCL (The Journal of Protective Coatings and Linings)

NY Times article from NACEtweet.

Using Potato Chips to Fix Crumbling Freeways?

Concrete is a porous material, and freeways fail when water seeps into concrete and then contracts and expands with changing temperatures. Water also corrodes the reinforcing steel bars inside the concrete, which expand and cause the concrete to fail.

A new study (PDF, 376k) from Jordanian researchers suggests there may be a way to effectively seal off concrete roads and other structures cheaply with sodium acetate, a potato chip ingredient that provides a tangy snap.

From SciGuy.

Rice University Establishes National Corrosion Center

For more about the National Corrosion Center see here and the National Corrosion Center site here.

Cost of Corrosion Study

A study sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Office of Infrastructure Research and Development shows that the total direct cost of corrosion in the United States was determined to be $279 billion per year, which is 3.2 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). Indirect costs to the user (society costs) are conservatively estimated to be equal to the direct costs. This means that the overall cost to society could be as much as six percent of the GDP.

See a breakdown of the costs by industry here. See a summary of the report here (PDF, 242k), or download the entire report here (PDF, 781k).

PRCI Continues SCC Data Mining Program and Seeks Member and Pipeline Operator Support

The Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI) recently received additional support and supplemental funding from PHMSA to continue the efforts to collect, compile, and analyze data for determining pipeline susceptibility to Stress Corrosion Cracking, or SCC. The SCC Data Mining Program is a key element of PRCI’s research program on SCC susceptibility (PRCI Program SCC-2) and consists of a consolidated effort to gather an industry database on the operating and environmental conditions that influence the initiation and growth of SCC on pipelines and the conditions where pipelines have not shown any indications of SCC.

See PHMSA's Pipeline Safety Research and Development Website here.

Read more about PRCI's SCC data mining project here.