Abstract
Corrosion of magnesium alloys is an important issue for their applications in automobile and aerospace industry. pH values as a function of time in two types of simulated occluded corrosion cells (OCC) for magnesium alloys AZ80 and AM60 were
measured. The influence of mass ratio of solution to material or liquid to solid ratio (L/S ratio), initial pH value and chemical compositions of solutions on pH value in OCC was discussed. The experimental results show that pH value for magnesium alloys increases gradually or rapidly in Occ, depending on L/S ratio, initial pH value of solution and chloride ions concentration etc, and
then reaches up to 10.5−10.6 and finally stabilizes at the level. The onset in the pH value time curve corresponds to the precipitate of
magnesium hydroxide according to the theoretical calculation.
