Investigation of the delamination of polymer-coated zinc and steel surfaces with the scanning Kelvinprobe in a climatic cycle test

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-TS-106

Project closed

Start date 1 July 1996

End date 30 June 1999

Funded under

• Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Total cost € 944 500,00

EU contribution € 566 700,00

Coordinated by

Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute eV
Germany

Objective

Much work has been carried out by the steel industry to develop a corrosion test, which is able to simulate the long-term corrosion behaviour of polymer- coated zinc and steel surfaces. These investigations have been of limited success due to a lack of understanding of the many parameters involved in the delamination kinetics. This multi-national research project will investigate the influence of relative humidity of the gaseous phase, the number of wet/dry cycles, the length of the wet and dry period, the concentration of salt on the surface and the temperature of the sample on the corrosion kinetics in a fundamental manner, by using a new experimental technique: the scanning Kelvin microprobe.

Programme(s)

• ECSC-STEEL C - Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Topic(s)

• F7 - Surface characteristics

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute eV

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Sohnstraße 65 ; 40237 Düsseldorf ; Germany
• Total cost: No data

Participants (2)

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES DE LA SIDERURGIE FRANÇAISE

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Voie Romaine - BP 320 ; 57214 MAIZIERES-LES-METZ CEDEX
• Total cost: No data

VOEST-ALPINE STAHL LINZ

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Turmstrasse 41 ; 4031 LINZ
• Total cost: No data