From 1998 to 2005 Luis became a Principal Scientist at Bell Labs where he managed the Reliability and Corrosion Materials Laboratory and did pioneering work onĬorrosion of Electronic materials and devices.įrom 2005 to 2007 Luis was the head of the Corrosion Laboratory at SC Johnson where he worked on accelerated methodologies to test and qualify materials used in consumer products. William Smyrl on in-situ microscopy and corrosion of biomedical implant materials. Luis was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Corrosion Research Center in the University of Minnesota (USA) working under Prof. During his PhD on Materials Science at Oxford University (UK), Luis worked on Pitting Corrosion of Duplex Stainless Steels under the supervision of Prof. dissertation was related to corrosion of Cr-Ni-Mo alloys under the supervision of Prof.

on Corrosion Science and Engineering from UMIST (UK), where he learned a broad spectrum of Corrosion topics that he has used throughout his career, his M.Sc. degree, Luis worked in a Research Institute working with Superconductors. Garfias has a Chemical Engineering degree from the Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY in Mexico).

Case studies and lessons learned from failure analysis and corrosion projects.

Advanced Corrosion Testing (electrochemistry and microscopy).

Interactions of Materials and their Environment.

The students are invited to bring their own samples just in case we have sufficient time to run basic testing on them. The course has a practical component where the students will learn (“hands-on”) the basics of sample preparation, polishing, etching, metallography, microscopy, and basic corrosion testing. Failure Analysis and case studies will be discussed throughout the different sessions (see below outline). We will also learn some of the common methodologies to prevent and control materials degradation (for example: materials selection, adding inhibitors, applying a protective coating, using cathodic or anodic protection, etc.).īasic knowledge of corrosion monitoring and inspection, as well as field and laboratory testing will be covered.

The course will cover typical engineering materials (mostly metals, but we will briefly talk about non-metals, and composites) and their interaction with their environment (temperature, pressure, gases, liquids, chemicals, soils, etc.). It will cover the terminology and definitions commonly used in corrosion, as well as the different types of passivity and corrosion. The course will begin with a general, basic foundation of electrochemistry and corrosion.

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