Abstract
An investigation was made into the corrosion behavior of commercial galvannealed steel in 10 )2 mol dm )3 NaCl aqueous solutions and in a tropical marine environment, using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), galvanostatic electrochemical stripping (GES), potentiodynamic linear polarization (PLP), and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) techniques and open circuit measurements (Eoc). For purposes of comparison, a commercial galvanized steel was also subjected to similar corrosion tests. GES and SEM techniques allowed for the identification of f, d and G intermetallic phases and revealed cracks in the galvannealed steel. The PLP, EIS and Eoc results indicated that the galvannealed coating was more corrosion resistant than galvanized coating in an aqueous medium, but that their corrosion behaviors were similar in the marine environment. The corrosion behavior of the galvannealed steel was affected by the evolution of the cracking process in the Zn–Fe layer due to the dissolution of zinc-rich phases, while the galvanized steel displayed generalized corrosion in the aqueous medium and localized corrosion in the marine environment.
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