Abstract
DESIGN, EVALUATION AND PREDICTION OF CORROSION RATES ON MILD STEEL IN SOME SELECTED ENVIRONMENTS
*Mbeledogu Njideka Nkemdilim, Ezeliora Daniel Chukwuemeka, Uzoamaka Paul Roseline
ABSTRACT
The study investigates the rate of corrosion and its impact on mild steel. The test was carried out in different selected environments, to understand their environmental influence and the rate of corrosion in that environment namely: 0.1M of Hydrochloric acid, Underground (soil), Atmosphere, Salt water and Fresh water. A mild steel of diameter 1.2cm and 8.5cm long was used for this experiment and studied for a period of six weeks interval weighing and re-immersing. The weight losses were tabulated and analyzed graphically. It was observed that mild steel corroded in the different environment with decreasing intensity in the order of 0.1M of Hydrochloric acid, Underground (soil), Atmosphere, Salt water, Fresh water. This will help Mild Steel industries and/or companies that use mild steel as one of their major production materials and/or their major construction materials to understand the impact of the corrosion rate in the selected environments.
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