All steel pipes rust and eventually fail. So, to preempt disasters, oil companies and others use computer models to predict when replacements are needed. But if the models go wrong, they can be ...

The WILLOW consortium is advancing research into offshore wind farm corrosion monitoring . The project aims to reduce inspection costs by 50%, extend wind farm lifetimes by five years, and lower the ...

Exposed metal surfaces are highly vulnerable to corrosion, but paint or other protective coatings can interfere with some uses, as well as add significant costs. Now, a comprehensive series of ...

High temperatures and materials make cheap fusion energy more difficult to produce. Engineers and scientists in U.S. labs have long been working on making fusion a practical and economic fusion ...

WHILE SOME corrosion-control treatments may be beneficial, a UB professor has proven in laboratory experiments that one rust-proofing treatment billed as protecting motor vehicles against the ravages ...

This press release is also available in French. The effect of corrosion has an impact on about 3% of the world's Gross Domestic Product. From a positive point of view, however, chemical attack of ...

Nanoracks just made space construction and manufacturing history with the first demonstration of cutting metal in orbit. The technique could be critical for the next generation of large-scale space ...