As promised, here is an excel file that you can explore, which (I hope) will assist in the understanding of the material presented in the EIS short talks.



Download it here:
EIS Sample Generator

Part 2 notes are now avaliable
EIS-2
EIS-2

As promised, the lecture slides from June 6, 2008 are being made accessable here:

For Printing (pdf):
EISpart1

For web viewing (flash):
EISpart1

CMCRL Student Dong Yang successfully defended his PhD dissertation this morning, "Factors Affecting Boiler Tube SAC"

Congratulations!

The CMCRL's own Ananya Bhattacharya was awarded one of two graduate awards in the ASM student poster session last week. The topic of the poster was "Stress Corrosion Cracking of Duplex Stainless Steels in Sulfide-Containing Caustic Solutions".

Image by Nathan Johansen of the GT Photography Club. More photographs of the event are avaliable here

There were at least six graduate posters in the running; congratulations, Ananya!

Georgia Tech's corrosion group, led by NACE Fellowship award reciever Dr. Preet Singh, presented three technical papers during the conference. Three first year PhD students won awards for Georgia Tech including the annual NACE Race, and student "team jeopardy" competition.

Conference papers:

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• Taylor, Matthew, "Hydrogen Permeation of Alloy 22" abstract
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• Bhattacharya, Ananya, "Corrosion of Duplex Stainless Steels in High pH Caustic Solution"abstract
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• Asher, Stefanie, "Hydrogen Production and Permeation of X-65 Pipeline Steel in Near Neutral pH Environments"abstract
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• Dong Yang, "Role of Carbon Steel Microstructure on SAC of Boiler Tubes"abstract
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Awards

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• Dr. Preet Singh: NACE Fellowship Award
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• Lindsey Goodman: NACE Race 2008: First Place, Women's Division
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• Kevin Chasse: NACE Race 2008: Third Place, Men's Division
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• Chasse, Goodman and Taylor: Nace Student Jeopardy Team Champions, 2008
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CMCRL student Matthew Taylor entered three thermodynamics related graphs into a short contest from the makers of the scientific sketching software "Graph Sketcher". A sketch of the Pourbaix Diagram for Iron was selected as the overall winner of the contest and will be published on the graph sketcher website shortly.

The winning entry. Note: this is a textbook-style sketch and not 100% accurate

The Pourbaix Diagram is an important thermodynamic map in pH-potential space, which is used by corrosion engineers to predict the stable species (ions, metal, oxides, etc.) for a given pH (acidity/alkalinity) and electrochemical potential (voltage).

New graduate student recruitment was last week. Attached is the poster we used to communicate our group's mission and research.

The CMCRL website is now back online after a brief stagnant period. Watch this space for announcements in the coming weeks.