Ion Implantation for High Temperature Corrosion Protection.

Ion implantation has only limited potential as corrosion protective treatment in high temperature technological applications. It can, however, be a very efficient technique in the frame of screening tests for evaluating the effect of possible alloying additions. Additionaly, it can also play a role to study the underlying corrosion mechanisms. In the present paper this is illustrated with some high temperature corrosion studies, i.e.for studying the mechanisms underlying the socalled reactive element effects; for developing more corrosion resistant TiAl-based alloys and to address mechanistic questions concerned with mixed oxidation/sulphidation.It is concluded that ion implantation is a powerful tool in high temperature corrosion studies, and can thus be very helpful for material development.

STROOSNIJDER Marinus Frederik; 

1997-11-10

JRC15516