Abstract:
The corrosion behavior of Q235 steel in Dagang soil with a 20% water content at different temperatures was studied by the means of polarization curve, linear polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The results indicate that at the range of 20 to 70℃, with increasing temperature the corrosion current density
Icorr increases, and the linear polarization resistance
Rp and the charge transfer resistance
Rt depress. At the range of 100 to 200 mV of anodic polarization, the electrode reaction of Q235 steel is blocked, and the slops of
E to lg
I curves exponentially decrease with increasing temperature. The value of
B which is calculated by the corrosion current density
Icorr and the linear polarization resistance
Rp is bigger than the one which accounts for active uniformity corrosion, and keeps constant at about 44.2 mV. Due to the control of diffusion process, the linear polarization resistances
Rp is much bigger than the charge transfer resistance R t obtained from equivalent circuit simulation of EIS technology.