A dynamic corrosion and degradation testing installation is provided. The installation includes a tank for heating and storing, in use, a fluid at a given temperature. The installation further includes a looped circuit including a pipe containing the fluid during one or more tests, having a first end and a second end both connected to the tank. The installation also includes a pump for circulating the fluid in the pipe and multiple test stands located at different locations along the pipe. Each test stand including a sample holder or testing chamber holding, in use, a solid sample in contact with the fluid and a heater and configured to heat the sample holder. Each test stand includes the sample holder to hold the solid sample in a specific portion of the pipe. The specific portions of the pipe having the functionality of a test chamber and containing the fluid.

An erosion sensor includes a plurality of individual sensing elements arranged in a stack. Each sensing element is separated from an adjacent sensing element by an electrically non-conducting material. The erosion sensor further includes a reference sensing element, the reference sensing element being separated from the closest sensing element, of the plurality of individual sensing elements, by an electrically non-conducting material. Each sensing element has a thickness of at least 0.25 mm.

A wall having a fluid impervious coating thereon and further having a monitoring arrangement which provides for monitoring the condition of the wall. The monitoring arrangement mounted on a surface of the wall

A pipeline AC mitigation SSD Marker Station has a shape and land surface area footprint that are similar to conventional pipeline location markers or corrosion test stations. The SSD Marker Station includes an SSD device that connects an underground metallic pipeline to an underground grounding conductor. The SSD Marker Station further includes a disconnect switch configured to disconnect the SSD device from the pipeline and/or grounding conductor. Also included is a pair of testing ports that are in electrical communication with the SSD device. Testing of the SSD device thereby requires only operating the disconnect switch to isolate the SSD device from the pipeline and/or grounding connector and performing an electrical measurement across the testing ports. In embodiments, the SSD Marker Station meets all requirements applicable to a pipeline location marker, and can be installed in lieu of a pipeline location marker.

A method for evaluating the delayed fracture characteristics of a metal material. The method including placing a solution-retaining material impregnated with a solution containing a chloride and having a pH of 3.5 or more on a stress loading part of the metal material, and maintaining a state in which the solution-retaining material is held at a deliquescence humidity of the chloride to thereby corrode the stress loading part.

A method for evaluating the delayed fracture characteristics of a metal material. The method including placing a solution-retaining material impregnated with a solution containing a chloride and having a pH of 3.5 or more on an edge face of the metal material, and maintaining a state in which the solution-retaining material is held at a deliquescence humidity of the chloride to thereby corrode the edge face.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bridges and hundreds of billions of tons of concrete require characterization with time for corrosion. Accordingly, protocols for rapid testing and improved field characterization systems that automatically triangulate electrical resistivity and half-cell corrosion potential measurements would be beneficial allowing discrete / periodic mapping of a structure to be performed as well as addressing testing for asphalt covered concrete. Further, it is the low frequency impedance of rebar in concrete that correlates to corrosion state but these are normally time consuming vulnerable to noise. Hence, it would be beneficial to provide a means of making low frequency electrical resistivity measurements rapidly. Further, prior art techniques for electrical rebar measurements require electrical connection be made to the rebar which increases measurement complexity/disruption / repair / cost even when no corrosion is identified. Beneficially a method of determining the state of a rebar without electrical contact is taught.

A non-destructive testing apparatus generates an electric current in a test coupon that is adjacent to the metallic structure. The non-destructive testing apparatus measures the electric current to produce at least one electric current measurement. The non-destructive testing apparatus correlates the at least one electric current measurement with the quantity of a predetermined iron oxide in the test coupon to determine a proxy for the degree of alternating current interference corrosion in the metallic structure.

A marine climate environment-bending load collaborative acceleration test method is provided, including conducting a static bending load loading test in an outdoor marine climate environment, conducting an alternate cycle of a dynamic bending load loading test in the outdoor marine climate environment and a test in the outdoor marine climate environment, and conducting an alternate cycle of the dynamic bending load loading test and the static bending load loading test in the outdoor marine climate environment. In the present disclosure, an acceleration rate of the marine climate environment-bending load collaborative acceleration test reaches over 8 times that of the test in the outdoor marine climate environment by taking the maximum bending force as an evaluation index, which may achieve a change from a static test to a static and dynamic combined test for examining and evaluating the environmental adaptability of the metal material.

This disclosure relates to the monitoring and detection of corrosion and/or erosion of pipes, vessels, and other components in an industrial facility. The monitoring system may comprise of an arrangement of guided wave (GW) transducers and a longitudinal wave (LW) transducer affixed to the piping component to collectively measure for localized corrosion of the piping component without necessarily requiring a thickness map. The monitoring system may use an intelligent amplified multiplexer/switch to control the operation of the transducers that may be controlled and operated to generate waves in the kilohertz range and megahertz range with the same hardware.