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extrusion, or hand forging as illustrated in Fig. 1. the grain direction as illustrated in Fig. 3.
6.1.2 Cut out metallurgical test specimen and polish Face A 7.6.1.3 Guide G 46 may be used as an alternate method to
to 0.812 µm (32 µin.) or preferably finer with polish as given evaluate pitting only.
in 5.3. 7.6.2 See Terminology G 15 for definitions of terminology
relating to corrosion and corrosion testing as a guidance
7. Procedure document.
7.1 Expose entire polished specimen through normal pro-
duction or maintenance cycle. Use test temperatures and 8. Report
periods of time representative of the highest usage temperature 8.1 Report the following information:
and longest exposure times associated with the chemical 8.1.1 Contents of test report,
process. For conformance testing, process specimens with 8.1.1.1 Description of chemical tested,
representative-like alloy parts through all operations including Examples: part number, formula, MSDS, or other manufac-
precleaning, post rinsing, and so forth, for the time necessary to turer’s identification number, and so forth,
remove the amount of metal specified by process or to achieve 8.1.2 Manufacturer of chemical,
process specified cleanliness. 8.1.3 Batch number or lot number,
7.2 For chemicals normally used at room temperature for 8.1.4 Date of manufacture,
periods of less than 8 h, use 40.6°C (105°F) 6 1°C (1.8°F) for 8.1.5 Dilution ratio (if applicable),
an exposure time of 24 h. 8.1.6 Test alloy and material specification (metallurgical
7.3 If required, clean specimen by removing corrosion heat number is optional),
products in accordance with Practice G 1. An ideal procedure 8.1.7 Exposure method,
should remove only corrosion products and not result in the Examples: immersion, dip and hang, brush, spray, or other,
removal of any base metal. 8.1.8 Exposure temperature °C to (°F),
7.4 After exposing the test specimens to the required times 8.1.9 Exposure period (seconds, minutes, hours, or days),
and temperatures, clean and mount metallurgical test specimen 8.1.10 Measured depth of maximum pit and magnification,
as illustrated in Fig. 2 in accordance with Practice E 3. 8.1.11 Measured width of maximum pit and magnification,
7.5 After mounting, metallurgical polish to a surface rough- 8.1.12 Measured length of maximum intergranular corro-
ness of 0.127-µm (5-µin.) Ra or finer. sion and magnification,
7.6 Metallurgical Evaluation of Polished Test Specimens: 8.1.13 Signature of test engineer and date,
7.6.1 Unless otherwise specified, observe test specimen 8.1.14 Approval signature of laboratory supervisor or man-
under 100 to 5003 magnification for end grain pitting and ager and date,
intergranular attack. 8.1.15 Date tested,
7.6.1.1 Measure maximum width and depth of pit as illus- 8.1.16 Qualification document for conformance testing (if
trated in Fig. 3. applicable),
7.6.1.2 Measure maximum length of intergranular attack Examples: material specifications, process specifications,
starting from the surface of the metal into the bulk material in procurement specifications.
FIG. 1 Face A
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9. Precision and Bias 9.2 Actual aircraft processes in the production environment
9.1 The spread in data obtained from a number of test should give the most representative results; however, the test
laboratories or round robin testing should be used to demon- results may not be completely evaluated with respect to
strate reproducibility and reliability of the test data. No ambient conditions which can vary from day to day.
information is available on the repeatability when a laboratory 9.3 This practice should be used over the range of condi-
conducts several identical tests. Additionally, when testing tions the process is expected to operate. For example, if the
chemicals requiring dilutions, water quality and composition process will be used from 10 to 38.7°C (50 to 100°F), data
may well play a role in the corrosion rates and mechanism points should be generated from 10 to 37°C (50 to 100°F) for
effecting the results of this practice. completeness.
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10. Keywords
10.1 aircraft; chemicals; corrosion; depth; end grain; inspec-
tion; intergranular attack; maintenance; metallographic; pit;
pitting
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