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Title: Underground Corrosion After 32 Years: A Study of Fate and Transport - Annual Report, June 2004

Abstract

In 1970, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now call National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), implemented the most ambitious and comprehensive long-term corrosion behavior test to date for stainless steels in soil environments. Over 32 years have passed since scientists buried 6,324 specimens from stainless steel types, specialty alloys, composite configurations, and multiple material forms and treatment conditions at six distinctive soil-type sites throughout the country. At the start of this research project, more than 190 specimens per site, exceeding a total of 1000 specimens, remained undisturbed, a buried treasure of subsurface scientific data. This research project advocates the completion of the NIST corrosion study along with a thorough examination of the soil and environment surrounding the specimens. The project takes an interdisciplinary research approach that will correlate the complicated interrelationships among metal integrity, corrosion rates, corrosion mechanisms, soil properties, soil microbiology, plant and animal interaction with corrosion products, and fate and transport of metallic ions. The results will provide much-needed data on corrosion rates, underground material degradation, and the behavior of corrosion products in the near-field vadose zone. The data will improve the ability to predict the fate and transport of chemical and radiological contaminants at sitesmore » throughout the DOE complex. The research scope is focused on one of the six available sites, Site D, near Wildwood, NJ.« less

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE - EM
OSTI Identifier:
910666
Report Number(s):
INEEL/EXT-04-02092
TRN: US200802%%43
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC07-99ID-13727
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 - MATERIALS SCIENCE, 42 - ENGINEERING, 54 - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ALLOYS; CORROSION; CORROSION PRODUCTS; SOILS; STAINLESS STEELS; TRANSPORT; US NBS; annual report; Study of Fate and Transport; Underground corrosion

Citation Formats

Flitton, Kay Adler. Underground Corrosion After 32 Years: A Study of Fate and Transport - Annual Report, June 2004. United States: N. p., 2004. Web. doi:10.2172/910666.
Flitton, Kay Adler. Underground Corrosion After 32 Years: A Study of Fate and Transport - Annual Report, June 2004. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/910666
Flitton, Kay Adler. 2004. "Underground Corrosion After 32 Years: A Study of Fate and Transport - Annual Report, June 2004". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/910666. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/910666.
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title = {Underground Corrosion After 32 Years: A Study of Fate and Transport - Annual Report, June 2004},
author = {Flitton, Kay Adler},
abstractNote = {In 1970, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now call National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), implemented the most ambitious and comprehensive long-term corrosion behavior test to date for stainless steels in soil environments. Over 32 years have passed since scientists buried 6,324 specimens from stainless steel types, specialty alloys, composite configurations, and multiple material forms and treatment conditions at six distinctive soil-type sites throughout the country. At the start of this research project, more than 190 specimens per site, exceeding a total of 1000 specimens, remained undisturbed, a buried treasure of subsurface scientific data. This research project advocates the completion of the NIST corrosion study along with a thorough examination of the soil and environment surrounding the specimens. The project takes an interdisciplinary research approach that will correlate the complicated interrelationships among metal integrity, corrosion rates, corrosion mechanisms, soil properties, soil microbiology, plant and animal interaction with corrosion products, and fate and transport of metallic ions. The results will provide much-needed data on corrosion rates, underground material degradation, and the behavior of corrosion products in the near-field vadose zone. The data will improve the ability to predict the fate and transport of chemical and radiological contaminants at sites throughout the DOE complex. The research scope is focused on one of the six available sites, Site D, near Wildwood, NJ.},
doi = {10.2172/910666},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/910666}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004},
month = {Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004}
}