Facilities

• KSC Beachside Corrosion Laboratory
• Beachside Atmospheric Test Facility
• Atmospheric Test Facility
• Flowing Seawater Test Facility
• On-Site Electrochemistry Laboratory and Monitoring Station
• Coatings Application Laboratory
• Accelerated Corrosion Testing

On-Site Electrochemistry Laboratory and Monitoring Station

The Beach Corrosion Laboratory is an on-site facility for conducting real time corrosion experiments, and it also houses the electronic instrumentation for the remote monitoring of the weather conditions at the site. The laboratory provides humidity and temperature control for electronic instrumentation such as personal computers, data loggers, electronic balances, etc., and also provides temperature-controlled laboratory space for on-site corrosion experiments.

Electrochemical experiments such as DC polarization resistance and AC impedance can be conducted on specimens exposed on-site (or in-situ) to gain valuable information on the instantaneous behavior of the corroding system. The laboratory has a fully equipped workshop to conduct on-site assembly for corrosion experiments. The workshop is composed of both mechanical and electrical/electronic work areas to build, repair or modify items for corrosion experiments.

The on-site electrochemistry laboratory has complete electrochemistry capabilities to conduct all of the standard corrosion-related electrochemistry tests, including but not limited to:

1. Polarization resistance
2. Tafel extrapolation
3. AC Impedance
4. Potentiodynamic scanning.

The site has electronic connections and allows continuous monitoring of electronic data via dedicated data lines. Current data which is monitored continuously includes:

1. Air temperature
2. Humidity
3. Wind speed and direction
4. Rainfall measured in 20 minute increments
   recorded and archived by day, month, year, etc.
5. Total incident solar radiation
6. UVB radiation.