Low temperature electrogalvanization: Texture and corrosion behavior

Sai Jyotheender, K and Punith Kumar, MK and Srivastava, C (2021) Low temperature electrogalvanization: Texture and corrosion behavior. In: Applied Surface Science, 559 .

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Abstract

Electrogalvanization at room temperature using aqueous bath is extensively used for protection of steel in highly corrosive environments. Here, it is shown that low temperature galvanization conducted at ~2 °C using aqueous electrolyte bath produces Zn coating which exhibits significantly lower corrosion current density (icorr) value when compared to the icorr values of coatings deposited at room temperature (~28 °C) and high temperature (~60 °C) when these coatings are exposed to a corrosive environment (3.5 wt NaCl solution). The icorr values for coatings deposited at 2 °C, 28 °C and 60 °C were 8.94 µA/cm2, 24 µA/cm2 and 182 µA/cm2 respectively. Micro-texture analysis revealed that the texture (grain orientation and grain boundary constitution) of the coatings is also highly sensitive to the deposition temperature. Higher corrosion resistance observed in case of 2 °C deposited coatings was due to factors such as growth of grains oriented with relatively inert basal plane on the coating surface which retards the transgranular corrosion and presence of higher fraction of low energy special boundaries (such as low angle grain boundaries, coincidence site lattices and symmetrical tilt grain boundaries) which retards the intergranular corrosion significantly. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Applied Surface Science
Publisher:	Elsevier B.V.
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Elsevier B.V.
Keywords:	Corrosion resistance; Corrosion resistant coatings; Corrosive effects; Crystal lattices; Electrolytes; Grain boundaries; High temperature corrosion; Intergranular corrosion; Sodium chloride; Steel corrosion; Temperature, Aqueous baths; Aqueous electrolyte; Corrosion behaviour; Corrosive environment; Electrogalvanization; Electrolyte bath; Electron backscatter diffraction; Low temperature galvanization; Lows-temperatures; Texture behavior, Textures
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)
Date Deposited:	04 Aug 2021 09:21
Last Modified:	04 Aug 2021 09:21
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/68904

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