Micro-crack chrome (1)
2008-06-17 – 8:03 下午Influence on corrosion resistance of hard chrome plating
Corrosion resistance of copper, nickel, chrome system depends on the surface statement of chrome and the property of nickel cladding located on the juncture of chrome claddings; corrosion speed is up to corrosion current intensity, corrosion current intensity is up to the rate of the chrome cladding area and the exposed area of nickel cladding area.
Because of the strong internal stress of chrome cladding, there must be existed crack on the surface. The dense oxic horizon on the surface of normal chrome plating deposit makes it become cathodal cladding. Produced micro crack were thick and little, yet the exposed area of nickel was small, thus corrosion current congregate on nickel cladding which is exposed as anode. The more intensity the current is, the faster the speed corrosion becomes. Although nickel cladding almost exist clearance, copper used in nickel/chromium system as anode. Therefore, corrosion almost lengthwise penetrability, thus improve the corrosion speed of iron base. Meantime, make the copper, nickel, chromium system protective ability get lower.
In copper, semi-bright nickel, bright nickel, micro-crack chrome system, the numerous micro-hole& micro-crack increase the exposed area of nickel layer existing in these crack and make under the same situation of total corrosion current these will slow the corrosion speed. On the other hand, because the sulfur percentage of bright nickel in the middle layer of two-double nickel exceed the semi-bright’s in the bottom layer, so the potential of bright nickel is lower than semi-bright nickel as the anode and the corrosion become transverse. If there is copper layer under the semi-bright nickel and copper as the cathode together two-double nickel and micro-crack chrome. So bright nickel, semi-bright nickel layer appear transverse corrosion. It improve the protective ability of base material.
Josephchiang