Material and Mechanics Lab Report

Corrosion Testing
Amro Areed 20161103047

 Describe the experiment procedures by your own words:

1. Prepare 4 samples of steel, 4 samples of copper and 4 samples of aluminum.
2. We measure the weight of each specimen and note it down.
3. We place one sample of each metal in a container of salt water, tap water,
distilled water, and one alone in a container and wait a week.
4. We measure their weight again after waiting for the week to end.
5. We repeat the above two steps for 5 weeks, each time noting down the weight
that we measure.

 Write your own summary and conclusion:

In this experiment we would like to see the effect different environments have on different
types of metal specimens, we conduct the experiment by leaving the specimen is a specific
environment and waiting for a week then measuring the weight to note the effect of corrosion
from the specific environment on our specimen.
We can see from the experiment how different environments affected our specimen, the most
affected specimen was Steel, since it went from 18 grams at the start of the experiment
decreasing to 13 grams in salt water, 15 grams in tap water, 16 grams in distilled water, and
finally the Steel specimen which was in an empty container wasn’t affected and stayed at the
same weight. However, for the copper specimen it showed no decreasing in weight except
when it was in a salt water container since it went from 18 grams to 16grams after 5 weeks, and
finally the Aluminum specimen wasn’t affected by any of the above environments.
In Conclusion we see that the salt water was the highest affecting environment and that
Aluminum was the best metal in our experiment since it didn’t get affected by corrosion,
followed by copper which showed minor effects. On the other hand, we can see how much
Steel gets affected by corrosion, because of that it shouldn’t be used in environments that
cause corrosion.