Corrosion Science and Engineering

Pietro Pedeferri (1938-2008) was full professor of Corrosion and Protection of Materials at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His work mainly focused on the corrosion of steel in concrete, and he published more than 300 papers and a dozen books in the field of corrosion and materials technology.

• General principles of corrosion.- Electrochemical mechanism.- Thermodynamics of aqueous corrosion.- Pourbaix diagrams.- Kinetics of aqueous corrosion.- Evans Diagrams.- Corrosion factors.- Uniform Corrosion in Acidic and Aerated Solutions.- Macrocell corrosion mechanism.- Galvanic corrosion.- Pitting corrosion.- Crevice Corrosion.- Stress Corrosion Cracking and Corrosion-Fatigue.- Hydrogen-Induced Damage.- Intergranular and Selective Corrosion.- Erosion-Corrosion and Fretting.- Corrosion prevention by coatings.- Environmental Control.- Cathodic and anodic protection.- Corrosion in waters.- Corrosion in soil.- Atmospheric corrosion.- Corrosion in concrete.- Corrosion in petrochemical plant.- Corrosion in the human body.- High temperature corrosion.- Prevention of corrosion in design.- Monitoring and inspections.- Testing.- Statisticalanalysis of corrosion data.