Corrosion Behaviors of 10CrNiCu High Strength Steel in Simulated Deep Sea Environment of High Hydrostatic Pressure and Low Dissolved Oxygen

Abstract

This paper investigated 10CrNiCu high strength steel in a simulated deep sea environment of high hydrostatic pressure (HP) and low dissolved oxygen (DO) using microstructures, rust compositions, and electrochemical measurements. The results show that primary form of steel corrosion in this simulated high HP and low DO environment is pitting. Using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and laser Raman spectrum, it is found that HP and DO all accelerate corrosion rates, but they affect corrosion processes in different ways. HP simultaneously accelerates anodic and cathodic reaction rates, whereas DO mainly accelerate cathodic reaction rates. In the environment of high HP and low DO, oxygen concentration cell corrosion has a tendency to form on steel surface, which can accelerate pitting.