Cyclic Corrosion Tests under Modern

Environmental Conditions for the

Automotive-, Steel- and Aluminum
Industries

Corrosion Equipment to Improve

your Product Quality
Index
1.

Overview Corrosion

2.

New Test Requirements

3.

Overview ERICHSEN Corrosion Test Equipment

1. Overview Corrosion

Rust

Pitting Corrosion

Galvanic Corrosion

Corrosion means the breaking down of essential properties in a material due

to chemical reactions with its surroundings. In the most common use of the
word, this means a loss of electrons of metals reacting with water and oxygen.
Weakening ofiron due to oxidation of the iron atoms is a well-known example of
electrochemical corrosion. This is commonly known as rusting. This type of
damage typically produces oxide(s) and/or salt(s) of the original metal.
Corrosion can also refer to the degradation of ceramic materials as well as the
discoloration and weakening of polymers by the sun's ultraviolet light.
Most structural alloys corrode merely from exposure to moisture in the air, but
the process can be strongly affected by exposure to certain substances (see
below). Corrosion can be concentrated locally to form a pit or crack, or it can
extend across a wide area to produce general deterioration. While some efforts
to reduce corrosion merely redirect the damage into less visible, less
predictable forms, controlled corrosion treatments such as passivation and
chromate-conversion will increase a material's corrosion resistance.

Corrosion
Intergranular Corrosion

Microbial Corrosion

Corrosion of glasses

2. New Test Requirements

CYCLIC-CORROSION-TEST NEW
Information from VDA/VDEh Working Group
Zyklische Laborkorrosionsprfung
Dr.Ing. K.H. Stellnberger

voestalpine Stahl GmbH

www.voestalpine.com/stahl

Fundamentally Questions:
What is the correct laboratorycorrosion-test for development and
evaluation of advanced materials
and coatings?
How is the correlation between this
test and the OEM-corrosion-tests?

Procedure
Evaluation of the situation
of the actual corrosion tests and requirements for large-scale production
(static- and cyclic-corrosiontests)
Definition
practically relevant test-specimen for cosmetic- and flange-corrosion
and a brand new cyclic-corrosion-test

Validation
VDA Test 621-415, OEM corrosiontests
and new test-procedures based on referenz-test-samples

WORKGROUP: 15 Participants
Steel Industry

Aluminumindustry

Automotiv Supply Industry

Car Industry

Aim of the test-procedure is to comply with the requirements

defined by the workgroup
defined test-cycle within small tolerances (repeatability, etc.)
applicability for all relevant materials (steel, aluminum, etc.)
applicability for all relevant tests (cosmetic corrosion, etc.)

Execution: The test consists of three cycles

Salt-Spray-Cycle
Specimen-Assessment-Cycle
Low-Temperature-Cycle

A
B
C

The cycle will be proceeded in a defined sequence

The test-result-indikation takes place in weeks

Testcycle new Cyclic-Corrosion-Test

one test-week

Sequence of Cycles

one test-week

Testcycle A graphically

Time, h

Test-Cycle A (Salt-Spray-Cycle; duration 24h)

Time [h]

Temperature [C]

Rel. Humidity [%]

Comment

35 const.

100 const

Salt-Spray-Phase

1
2
3
4

(NaCL 1%, pH 6.5 7.1)

ramping 35 to 50 (0.125 K/min)

5
6
7

ramping 100 to 50 (0.1 %/min)

8
9
10
11
12

50 const.

13

50 const
ramping 50 to 70 (0.33 %/min)

14
15

ramping 70 to 90 (0.1 %/min)

16
17
18

90 const

19

ramping 90 to 95 (0.1 %/min)

20

ramping 50 to 35 (0.125 K/min)

21
22
23
24

35 const

95 const

Testcycle B graphically

Time, h

Test-Cycle B (Specimen-Assessment-Cycl; duration 24h)

Time [h]

Temperature [C]

Rel. Humidity [%]

ramping 35 to 25 (0.5 K/min)

ramping 95 to 70 (0.14 %/min)

Comment

1
2
3
4
5

25 const.

Specimen-Assessment-Phase

6
7
8
9

ramping 25 to 50 (0.1 K/min)

70 const

50 const.

ramping 70 to 90 (0.1 %/min)

10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

90 const

19

ramping 90 to 95 (0.1 %/min)

20

ramping 50 to 35 (0.125 K/min)

21
22
23
24

95 const
35 const

Testcycle C graphically

Test-Cycle C (Low-Temperature-Cycle; duration 24h)

Time [h]

Temperature [C]

Rel. Humidity [%]

ramping 35 to 50 (0.125 K/min)

ramping 95 to 70 (0.14 %/min)

-15 const.

undefined

ramping -15 to 50 (0.22 K/min)

ramping undefined to 70

Comment

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

ramping 70 to 80 (0.16 %/min)

16

ramping 80 to 90 (0.08 %/min)

17

50 const.

18

90 const

19

ramping 90 to 95 (0.1 %/min)

20

ramping 50 to 35 (0.125 K/min)

21
22
23
24

95 const
35 const

Low-Temperature-Phase

Filiform-Corrosion
Steel

Filiform-Corrosion
Aluminum

3. Overview
ERICHSEN Corrosion Test Equipment

Mod. 616 / 1000 l

Cyclic-Corrosion
Testing Eqipment for
carrying out the CCT
VDA NEW
CCT Chamber with Option for
Temperature- and Humidity-Regulation
(up to -20 C and 30 to 100 % rel.
Humidity)

Optional Accessories Mod. 616

Salt spray (vertically down)

Salt spray (horizontal mistspray)

Renault D 17 2028 ECC-1 Kit

Water fog humidity

Liquid Immersion Facility

Corrosion-Test-Equipment for
Humidity-Test
Mod. 529
Especially for Large Size Test-Samples

Mod. 519
Standart

Mod. 519
fully automatically
Kesternich-Test

Salt-Spray and Cyclic-Corrosion Chambers

Mod. 606 / 1000 l + 400 l

Mod. 608 / 2000 l

Salt-Spray and Cyclic-Corrosion Chambers

Mod. 610 / 610e

Mod. 612 / 614 / 616

Thank you very much

for your attention.