Transport Industry
Automotive, aerospace, rail and maritime: the materials used in the transport sector are subjected to complex loadings combining mechanical fatigue, climatic variation and chemical attack. With growing regulatory constraints and the shift towards low-carbon powertrains, corrosion control is a strategic issue for vehicle durability and safety. The French Corrosion Institute supports transport industry players from the R&D phase through to the validation of their protection systems.
Our missions
- Develop accelerated corrosion tests representative of real service conditions.
- Improve understanding of the corrosion mechanisms of materials and assemblies used in transport.
- Assess the application of environmentally-friendly protection systems.
- Study the combined effect of corrosion and fatigue on automotive and aerospace structures and assemblies.
- Provide real-time corrosion and environmental monitoring solutions for tracking in-service structures and components.
Our services
- Participation in co-funded collaborative projects (JIPs)
- Technical consultancy and expertise: material selection, failure analysis
- Laboratory testing to industry standards: Renault D17/2028, Volvo STD423-0014, VDA621-415, VDA 233-102, ISO 20340, NACE TM0304/TM0404
- Salt spray, accelerated ageing, corrosion fatigue
- Real-world tests: exposure on vehicles (Sweden), global marine atmospheric stations
- Determination of atmospheric corrosivity (C2 to CX for steel)
- Real-time corrosion and environmental sensor solutions (corrosion potential, humidity, temperature, galvanic coupling currents…) on in-service structures and components, with remote data acquisition
- Advanced characterisation: electrochemistry, SKP, infrared spectroscopy, SEM, hydrogen analysis