Tools and Techniques for Corrosion Assessment

The main objectives of corrosion science and engineering are to reduce the risk to society from corrosion, improve the sustainability of engineered systems, and assist in the conservation of our cultural heritage. The need to understand and reduce corrosion is more urgent than ever due to aging of systems important to maintaining the modern society and the rapid expansion of industrial infrastructure in the developing countries. Corrosion science and engineering are highly interdisciplinary, requiring tools and techniques developed in other fields such as surface science, materials science, mechanics, electrochemistry, biochemistry, etc. The availability of improved tools in other related fields has enabled us to gain better insights into corrosion processes. However, there is an increasing need to integrate this knowledge for predicting corrosion risk.

The 2014 Aqueous Corrosion GRC will contain talks from leading researchers on multi-scale modeling techniques to predict corrosion, in-situ analytical techniques to understand fundamental corrosion processes, mechanisms of localized corrosion and environmentally assisted cracking, and microbiological processes at the electrochemical interface. The conference will conclude by discussing the major theme of the conference: assessing and reducing corrosion risk. An important goal of this GRC is to bring about a dialog between academic, government, and industrial researchers. The conference intends to have presentations in the traditional GRC format (i.e. 40 minute talk plus 20 minute discussion). Informal discussions and poster sessions in the evenings will complement these interactions.

Gordon Research Seminar: A day prior to the start of the GRC, a separate Gordon Research Seminar on Aqueous Corrosion will be held at the same site. The GRS is an invitation-only meeting designed to foster discussion of the current research by young researchers/students/post-docs. The presentations at GRS will be exhibited as posters in the GRC.