TY - JOUR A1 - Bender, S. A1 - Holzhausen, U. A1 - Heyn, Andreas T1 - Investigations of the aqueous corrosion of pretreated magnesium alloys by means of electrochemical noise measurements JF - Materials and corrosion N2 - An important possibility to improve the corrosion behaviour of magnesium alloys is the application of protective coatings. The quality of such coatings depends mainly on the pretreatment and the exposure conditions after pretreatment. Since magnesium surfaces change much faster under atmospheric conditions than those of almost any other technical material, it is necessary to pay special attention to this particular feature. The activity of acid-pickled surfaces of the magnesium alloys AZ31 and AZ91 in dependence on the exposure time and the humidity conditions was investigated with electrochemical noise (EN) measurements. In addition to pickling, plasma chemical vapour deposition processes open new possibilities for an economical, as well as ecologically quite safe, pretreatment. The results of EN investigations after acid pickling as well as specific plasma oxidation treatments of the two magnesium alloys after exposure to air with different humidities are presented. KW - Corrosion KW - CVD KW - Electrochemical noise KW - Magnesium alloys KW - Pretreatment PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/maco.201206741 SN - 0947-5117 SN - 1521-4176 VL - 64 IS - 8 SP - 708 EP - 713 PB - Wiley-VCH Verl. CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-29073 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -