Abstract
In cold and snowy area, welded structures on the outdoors are exposed to combinational environment of the salt damage and the freezing damage, in which the corrosive solution containing CI" chlorine ions from the sea breeze and snow melting agents undergo freezing-thawing cycles during the winter. The cause of pitting corrosion phenomenon which occurs in the welded stainless steel under such a combinational environment has not yet been clarified. In the present study, it is investigated that the effect of corrosive factors on the progression of pitting corrosion in welded austenitic stainless steel under freezing and thawing corrosive environment. Austenitic stainless steel SUS 304 plates with bead-on-plate welding are used as specimens. The specimens are fully immersed in FeCl3 solution. The freezing-thawing environment is created by temperature cycling form 20 ℃ to -20 ℃. One cycle of freezing-thawing is 12 hours and 24 hours.
