Electrochemical noise applied to the study of the inhibition effect of CeCl3 on the corrosion behaviour of Al-Mg alloy AA5083 in seawater

Electrochemical noise measurements have been used to study the corrosion behaviour of aluminium. alloy AA5083 in 3.5% NaCl solution with and without doping with CeCl3 at 500 ppm. Information on the evolution of corrosion activity over a period of 4 days and on the corrosion mechanism itself has been obtained for the two systems. Experimental data obtained have been analysed using robust statistical parameters and wavelet transform; transient shapes were also studied. The various mathematical techniques applied to analyse the electrochemical noise data have been proposed recently. This paper thus not only characterises the corrosion systems studied but also illustrates the usefulness of these new methods. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.