1、STP 1421 Outdoor Atmospheric Corrosion Herbert E.Townsend,editor ASTM Stock Number:STPI421 INTERNATIONAL ASTM 100 Barr Harbor Drive West Conshohocken,PA 19428-2959 Printed in the U.S.A.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Outdoor atmospheric corrosion/Herbert E.Townsend,editor.p.cm.-(S
2、TP;1421)ASTM Stock Number:STP1421.Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 0-8031-2896-7 1.Corrosion and anti-corrosives-Congresses.I.Townsend,Herbert E.,1938-ASTM special technical publication;1421 I1.TA418.74.O88 2002 620.11223-dc21 2002074627 Copyright?9 2002 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTIN
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8、tion of time and effort on behalf of ASTM International.Printed in Phila.,PA August 2002 Foreword This publication,Outdoor Atmospheric Corrosion,contains papers presented at the sym-posium of the same name held in Phoenix,Arizona,on 8-9 May 2001.The symposium was sponsored by ASTM International Comm
9、ittee G1 on Corrosion of Metals.The symposium co-chairman was Herbert E.Townsend,Consultant,Center Valley,PA.Dedication to Seymour K.Coburn 1917-2001 This volume is dedicated to the memory of Seymour K.Coburn,who passed away on January 4,2001.Sy,as he was known to many of his friends,was born in Chi
10、cago in 1917.He received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1940,and an MS from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1951.After initially working for Minor laboratories,Lever Brothers,and the Association of American Railroads,he began a long career as a corrosion specialist at the Ap
11、plied Research Laboratories of US Steel Corporation.Working with C.P.Larabee at US Steel,he became well known throughout the industry for pioneering their studies of the effects of alloying elements on the corrosion of steels.To do this,they studied the corrosion performance of hundreds of steel com
12、positions exposed to rural,marine,and industrial environments,and defined the beneficial effects of copper,nickel,phosphorus,chromium,and silicon.No treatment of the subject is complete without a reference to their classic paper,The Atmospheric Corrosion of Steels as Influenced by Changes in Chemica
13、l Composition,that was presented in 1961 to the First International Congress on Metallic Corrosion in London.Sy went on to become one of the leading advocates of weathering steels,that is,low-alloy steels which develop a protective patina during exposure in the atmosphere so that they become corrosi
14、on-resistant without painting for use in applications such as bridges,utility towers,and buildings.He was US Steels research consultant for the John Deere Headquarters on Moline,IL,the first building constructed with weathering steel,as well as the Chicago Civic Center,and some of the first unpainte
15、d weathering steel bridges.In 1970,he was transferred to the Special Technical Services unit of US Steels Metal-lurgical Department where he became the top promoter and trouble-shooter for bridges and other weathering steel applications.But it was not until he attended a workshop of the Steel Struct
16、ures Paint Council that he achieved his real goal in life-he became a teacher.An active member of ASTM International,Sy chaired Subcommittee GI.04 on Atmos-pheric Corrosion from 1964 to 1970,and was instrumental in organizing this subcommittee.He also was the prime mover in organizing and editing STP 646,Atmospheric Factors Affecting the Corrosion of Engineering Materials,and he chaired the symposium that led to that STP,a celebration of 50 years of exposure testing at the State College,PA,ASTM
