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Crevice corrosion is a very insidious and widespread form of localised corrosion in industrial plants. In the past 20 years much effort has been addressed to the production of more resistant new alloys, and many attempts made at defining more reliable test methods for assessing crevice corrosion behaviour. Unfortunately several difficulties are met when carrying out crevice corrosion tests: first, the impossibility of ensuring reproducible conditions of crevice geometry as well as of metal sll1face state; second, the correlation of laboratory results with field data. The latter has become a crucial problem. In this paper, comparisons between the results from some different test methods are reported with particular attention to the possible use of the pitting resistance equivalent (PRE) to assess the alloy s resistance to crevice corrosion. Test methods have given comparable and fairly consistent results, and useful correlations between PRE and experimental parameters have been derived.

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Correlations between experimental and compositional parameters in crevice corrosion

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