Corrosion and Protection
The Corrosion and Protection Centre, together with CAPCIS Ltd, is one of the world's largest, academic based activities that is dedicated to corrosion and its control.
Corrosion remains a significant threat to the reliability and sustainability of materials, with costs of around 4% GNP; in the UK alone, it is a £10 billion industry!
Corrosion science and technology are key to the development of new materials and innovative production processes for use in industries driven by the need to improve their capital productivity, operational reliability, efficiency, performance and health and safety of the world's physical assets.
Image: Extreme Testing
This is the laboratory hot rig for the extreme test conditions on the metals and alloys. The temperature here is 1000°C (1832 °F). The inside diameter is ~80mm (3.15"). The central ceramic crucible has the testing metal inside.
Research themes
With more than 50 students, the industry-driven, fundamental and strategic research is organised in four overlapping themes:
Facilities
The research utilises state-of-the-art electrochemical and electronoptical, and surface analytical and structural facilities. With extensive networking within and outside the School, access is available to a wide range of ion and X-ray probing approaches. Within the Centre, facilities are available to reproduce in-service conditions, thereby meeting industrial needs.
Members of staff
- Professor R A Cottis
- Dr E Koroleva
- Dr R Lindsay
- Dr Z Liu
- Professor S B Lyon
- Dr B Prescott
- Professor J D Scantlebury
- Professor A Sherry
- Professor P Skeldon
- Dr N Stevens
- Dr X Zhou
- Professor Graham Wood (Emeritus)