Testing Tribocorrosion of Passivating Materials Supporting Research and Industrial Innovation: A Handbook PDF

Series introduction

The EFC, founded in 1955, is a Federation of 33 societies with interests in corrosion and is based in twenty-six different countries throughout Europe and beyond. Its member societies represent the corrosion interests of more than 25,000 engineers, scientists and technicians. The Federation’s aim is to advance the science of the corrosion and protection of materials by promoting cooperation in Europe and collaboration internationally. Asides from national and international corrosion societies, universities, research centres and companies can also become Affi liate Members of the EFC.

The administration of the Federation is in the hands of the Board of Administrators, chaired by the EFC President, and the scientifi c and technical affairs are the responsibility of the Science and Technology Advisory Committee, chaired by the STAC Chairman and assisted by the Scientifi c Secretary. The General Assembly approves any EFC policy prepared and presented by the BoA. The Federation is managed through its General Secretariat with three shared headquarters located in London, Paris and Frankfurt.

The EFC carries out its most important activities through its nineteen active working parties devoted to various aspects of corrosion and its prevention, covering a large range of topics including: Corrosion and Scale Inhibition, Corrosion by Hot Gases and Combustion Products, Nuclear Corrosion, Environment Sensitive Fracture, Surface Science and Mechanisms of Corrosion and Protection, Physicochemical Methods of Corrosion Testing, Corrosion Education, Marine Corrosion, Microbial Corrosion, Corrosion of Steel in Concrete, Corrosion in Oil and Gas Production, Coatings, Corrosion in the Refi nery Industry, Cathodic Protection, Automotive Corrosion, Tribo-Corrosion, Corrosion of Polymer Materials, Corrosion and Corrosion Protection of Drinking Water Systems, Corrosion of Archaeological and Historical Artefacts. The EFC is always open to formulating new working parties in response to the demands brought about by developing technologies and their ensuing corrosion requirements and applications.

The European Federation of Corrosion’s fl agship event is EUROCORR, the most important Corrosion Congresses in Europe, which is held annually in a different European country in September of each year. To date, 27 EUROCORR conferences have taken place in 12 different countries and they have gained a reputation for their high technical quality, global perspective and enjoyable social programme. Another channel for the EFC’s valuable transfer of knowledge is the EFC “green” book series which are the fruit of the collaboration and high scientifi c calibre within and amongst the EFC working party members and are emblematic of the EFC editorial policy. 

Auhtors: Jean-Pierre Celis