BS EN ISO 8407:2021 pdf download.Corrosion of metals and alloys — Removal of corrosion products from corrosion test specimens.
1 Scope This document specifies procedures for the removal of corrosion products formed on metal and alloy corrosion test specimens during their exposure in corrosive environments. For the purpose of this document, the term “metals” refers to pure metals and alloys. The specified procedures are designed to remove all corrosion products without significant removal of base metal. This allows an accurate determination of the mass loss of the metal, which occurred during exposure to the corrosive environment. In some cases, these procedures are also applicable to metal coatings, providing the possible effects from the substrate are considered.
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4 Procedures
4.1 General
4.1.1 A light mechanical cleaning treatment by brushing, e.g. a soft bristle brush under running water,should first be applied to remove lightly adherent or bulky corrosion products.
4.1.2 If the treatment described in 4.1.1 does not remove all corrosion products, it will be necessary to use other procedures. These are of three types:
a) chemical;
b) electrolytic;
c) more vigorous mechanical treatments.
NOTE These treatments will also remove some base metal.
Whichever method is used, it might be necessary to repeat the cleaning treatment to ensure complete removal of the corrosion products. Removal shall be confirmed by visual examination. The use of a low- power microscope (i.e. × 7 to × 30) is particularly helpful with a pitted surface since corrosion products can accumulate in pits.
4.1.3 An ideal procedure should remove corrosion products and not result in the removal of any base metal. Two procedures can be used to confirm this point. One procedure uses a control specimen (see 4.1.4) and the other requires a certain number of cleaning cycles on the corroded specimen (see 4.1.5). The procedures shall be maintained while the rust removal performance of the solutions listed in Tables A.1 and A.2 is not impaired. NOTE 1 Indications that the solution needs to be discarded can be discoloration or the presence of a significant amount of corrosion products in the solution. NOTE 2 Some solutions might need some aging before working without etching the substrate.
4.1.4 Uncorroded control specimens, which should be similar chemically, metallurgically and geometrically to the test specimens, should be cleaned by the same procedure as used for the test specimen. By weighing the control specimen before and after cleaning (weighing to the fifth significant figure is suggested, e.g. a 70 g specimen should be weighed to three decimal places), the metal loss resulting from cleaning may be determined. The mass loss of the control specimen will reflect the mass loss of test specimens resulting from the cleaning procedure.BS EN ISO 8407 pdf download.