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DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
Steel is
the most common material that used to building and construction fields. For
example, AISI 1045 of medium carbon steel which has a low price with good
quality. However, the metal will decrease quality. This is caused by the effect
of corrosion. To slow down the corrosion phenomenon and give effect to the
desired material properties, it can be treated by using heat treatment. The
purpose of this researching was to determine the corrosion rate of the material
without heat treatment and the material given heat treatment with variations of
annealing, normalizing, quenching and tempering using AISI 1045 material with
seawater electrolyte. The method used in testing the corrosion rate is
electrochemical, according to the ASTM G59-97 (2009) standard. From the results
of the study, the highest corrosion rate values in the test specimens without
heat treatment were 0.068461, 0.069042 and 0.069597 (mmpy). While the lowest
corrosion rate values in the annealing heat treatment specimen were 0.012147,
0.014623 and 0.017637 (mmpy). There are two things that affect the corrosion
rate, the first is internal stress. If this stress is not removed, it causes
stress corrosion cracking. The second, the pearlite phase. Pearlite has an
arrangement of cementite and ferrite. When connected to an electrolyte, the two
phases will experience microgalvanic corrosion. Because the microgalvanic
effect causes the test specimen with more perlite phase to corrode faster.
Country : Indonesia
IRJIET, Volume 6, Issue 10, October 2022 pp. 13-18