PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Zatkalíková, Viera
AU  - Markovičová, Lenka
AU  - Liptáková, Tatiana
AU  - Vaško, Alan
TI  - Corrosion Behavior of AISI 304 Stainless Steel in Aggressive Chloride Environment
DP  - 2017 Sep 1
TA  - Manufacturing Technology Journal
PG  - 639--643
VI  - 17
IP  - 4
AID - 10.21062/ujep/x.2017/a/1213-2489/MT/17/4/639
IS  - 12132489
AB  - Cr-Ni stainless steels are commonly used for construction of various equipments exposed to halides containing media, which can act aggressively and cause a serious local corrosion damage of these materials. This article focuses on the resistence of AISI 304 stainless steel to the pitting corrosion in 1 M acidified chloride solution represented by mixture 0.9M NaCl + 0.1M HCl, at the ambient temperature of 22 ± 3 °C. An evaluation of the pitting corrosion resistance was based on the cyclic potentiodynamic polarization tests performed on three types of steel surfaces: "as received", electropolished and ground + electropolished surfaces. The pitting potentials were determined and compared. Pitted surfaces after potentiodynamic polarization tests were observed by the optical microscope.