Mg-7Gd-5Y-Nd-Zr Alloy Plate Corrosion-resistance Property to Chloride Ion

Rare earth Mg alloy has aroused increasing attention in aviation, spaceflight, war industry application fields; however, its poor corrosion-resistance restricted its wide range of application. For Mg-7Gd-5Y-Nd-Zr extruding plate, the grain orientation and size are different in three planes, which is extruding plane (surface), side plane, and cross-section plane. Microstructure may lead to the variation of corrosion resistant to marine climate environment. The corrosion resistance of chloride ion in three different planes of rare earth Mg plate was studied. The immersion and dynamic potential polarization curves in 3.5 wt. % concentration of sodium chloride solution were used to analysis and compare electrochemical characteristics among the three planes. Optical microscope was employed to observe the microstructure of Mg alloy before and after the chloride ion erosion. The X-ray diffraction was used to determine its corrosion product. The results show that corrosion-resistance properties of the three planes (surface, side and cross section) are different. Pitting corrosion are mainly characteristics and corrosion product is magnesium hydroxide. The different resistant properties of three planes are mainly attributed to different grain size and orientation of the different planes.