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by jdarroyaveh 1420 days ago
An extremely important topic, especially since I've been hearing about it all my life (disclaimer, my father, past president of the International Corrosion Council (ICC) and 2022 recipient of the Corrosion Awareness Award from the World Corrosion Organisation (WCO), the European Federation of Corrosion (EFC) and the Chinese Society of Corrosion and Protection (CSCP) https://corrosion.org/Awards.html). For those who want to learn a little more about his insights and the summary of a long career, 2 years ago he set up this free blog just about corrosion: https://news.materials.business. For example, he talks about how he calculated the international cost of corrosion damage for 2019 to be USD$4.8 trillion. And only a fraction of that amount represents the cost of steel that had to be replaced due to corrosion problems. (https://news.materials.business/19/01/2021/engineering-mater...)