Wear-Corrosion Interactions

A meeting of the EPSRC Tribo-Corrosion Network

Southampton University

17th April 2002

10:00 Registration and coffee
10:30

Wellcome and Introduction to Network

Dr RJ Wood, University of Southampton, Southampton

10:40

Review of Network events and activities

Professor Margaret Stack, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

10:50

Use of microelectrodes to investigate the tribocorrosion behaviour of stainless steel

Professor Jean-Pierre Celis, MTM-KULeuven, Belgium

11:20

Corrosion-wear mechanism of hard coated austenitic stainless steel during sliding contact

Dr Peter Dearnley, University of Leeds, Leeds

11:50

Erosion-corrosion of marine coatings

Dr Robert Wood, University of Southampton

12:20

The Evaluation of Tribo-Corrosion Synergy for WC/Co Hardmetals in Low Stress Abrasion

Dr Mark Gee, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington

12:50 Lunch
14:00

Modelling eerosion-corrosion processes in aqueous conditions: some new perspectives

Professor Margaret Stack, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

14:30

Assessing the mechanical and electrochemical interaction in degradation of engineering materials in slurry erosion-corrosion

Dr Anne Neville, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

15:00

Materials performance under cavitation erosion-corrosion

Dr Robin Oakley, QinetiQ, Farnborough

15:30

Influence of Re on the corrosion of stainless steels

Dr Julian Wharton, University of Southampton, Southampton

16:00 Open Forum and Review of Proposals
16:30 Close and Tea

Optional lab tour available after the Close and Tea.