Accession Number:

ADA021279

Title:

Corrosion of Metals and Alloys in the Deep Ocean

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Oct 1961-Jun 1974

Corporate Author:

CIVIL ENGINEERING LAB (NAVY) PORT HUENEME CA

Personal Author(s):

• Reinhart, Fred M.

Report Date:

1976-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

272.0

Abstract:

Between 1960 and 1970, about 20,000 specimens of 475 alloys were exposed in the seawater in the Pacific Ocean in order to conduct a program on the effects of deep-ocean environments on materials. The test specimens included steels, cast irons, stainless steels, copper, nickel, aluminum, titanium, miscellaneous alloys, and wire ropes. They were exposed at the surface and at nominal depths of 2,500 and 6,000 feet for periods of time varying from 123 to 1,064 days. The results of their corrosion behavior have been compiled, analyzed, and evaluated in the report.

Descriptors:

• *CORROSION
• COPPER ALLOYS
• STAINLESS STEEL
• STEEL
• WIRE ROPE
• ENVIRONMENTAL TESTS
• NICKEL ALLOYS
• DEEP WATER
• TITANIUM ALLOYS
• CORROSION RESISTANT ALLOYS
• ALUMINUM ALLOYS
• IRON

Subject Categories:

• Properties of Metals and Alloys

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE