Estimación de la corrosión atmosférica mediante la técnica de “alambre sobre tornillo” en el noreste de la ciudad de Barranquilla
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Paz Oñate, Edgar Alexander | 2021
Currently in Colombia, there are few investigations that allow determining the atmospheric
corrosion rates, the problems generated by corrosion are increasingly common since the use of
metallic structures is more and more daily in engineering projects. The objective of this research
is to classify the atmospheric corrosion rates of the Northeast area of the city of Barranquilla,
likewise, to study the different meteorological factors that affect the corrosion process; For this,
three “wires on screws” devices (PVC-Al, Fe-Al, Cu-Al) were installed within the facilities of the
Universidad de la Costa. The results obtained indicated that despite the incidence of the pollutants
produced by the factories near Via 40 and the salinity from the Caribbean Sea, the industrial and
marine atmospheric corrosion indices showed low results, whose meaning would show that the
area of study is habitable and the classification for these indices is negligible or moderate.
Allowing to conclude that, despite obtaining low atmospheric classifications, the accumulation of
pollutants that generate the corrosion process are notorious in the long term, so it is advisable to
use protection mechanisms such as materials or coatings that make the corrosion processes
minimal and the useful life of certain metallic materials such as steel is extended whose useful life
when unprotected can be an average of two years before their function is affected.
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