ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Offshore, Shipbuilding, and Marine Equipment
Metallographic Studies of the U.S.S. Arizona
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Published:2019
Abstract
Metallographic studies found that steel used to fabricate the U.S.S. Arizona battleship during original construction, 1913-1915 and reconstruction, 1929-1931 were consistent with the best materials available during each time period. Due to the force of the forward magazine detonation, the best steel available today would not have had any impact on the outcome. Heavy banding in steels from both periods could adversely affect the corrosion resistance under anaerobic conditions that prevail during a corrosion cycle that has developed under hard biofouling layers for over 58 years. Banding would have no effect on corrosion rate under aerobic conditions that may...
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Member Sign InD.L. Johnson, W.N. Weins, J.D. Makinson, D.A. Martinez, Metallographic Studies of the U.S.S. Arizona, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Offshore, Shipbuilding, and Marine Equipment, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.marine.c9001720
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