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Statistical issues in Pitting Corrosion of Carbon Steel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

M. B. Mcneil
M. B. Mcneil*
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Office of Research, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555
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Abstract

A review is given of the state of understanding of the statistical distributions of pit depths and pit populations in carbon steel, with special reference to underground carbon steel structures, which appear to bear significant similarities to the alloys and conditions expected in basalt and salt high level waste repositories.

The data base on pit depth distributions is reviewed and the various phenomenological equations which have been used to rationalize laboratory and field observations are discussed and classified in terms of the statis- tical models underlying them. The present state of understanding of the physical phenomena underlying these distributions is reviewed, and sugges- tions for appropriate future research are presented.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 84: Symposium L – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management X , 1986 , 199
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1987

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