The corrosion research at these laboratories is aimed at increasing the reliability and lengthening the safe service life of military equipment. Materials Research Laboratories is one of the major scientific establishments within the Department of Defense. Corrosion research is conducted in the metallurgy division and includes aqueous and high temperature corrosion studies and environmentally induced cracking.
Jeff Batten is head of the Electrochemistry Group which specializes in aqueous corrosion and electroplating studies, including both research and consulting activities for the Department.
Premature corrosion during storage of zinc plated munitions has resulted in several of the author's research projects on the corrosion of electroplated zinc. There are three main areas of interest.
Russell Taylor and the author are researching microprocessor controlled corrosion rate measurements. A potentiostatic system has been developed which calculates the corrosion rate from curve-fitting of the polarization data close to the corrosion potential. Accurate correction for the IR...
