The AUSCOR program is among the most advanced materials performance prediction expert systems known to the authors. Developed over several years (circa 1980-86) primarily by the late Dr. John G. Hines, AUSCOR predicts the performance of some 28 stainless steel and nickel-based chromium-bearing alloys in a wide range of aqueous environments. Built for internal proprietary use within Hines’s employer ICI pic, AUSCOR is relatively unknown to the international materials science and engineering community. Furthermore, AUSCOR was developed for use on outmoded hardware using software which is now obsolete, and only limited documentation has survived. The authors are engaged in a project to modernize the AUSCOR program and distribute the results eventually to a broader community of users. Details of the AUSCOR program and the overall modernization project are described.

Subject
Acids, Water, Materials, Stainless alloys, Materials performance, Nickel based alloys, Aqueous environments, Acidity, Equipment, Stainless steel, Alloys, Stress corrosion cracking, Types of corrosion
Keywords:
aqueous corrosion, AUSCOR, austenitic, chemical process industry, corrosion, expert system, materials performance, mixed potential theory, nickel-based alloys, performance prediction
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1994
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