Corrosion is a phenomenon of degradation of metallic materials that produces a great impact from a social, environmental and economic point of view. Along my personal academic experience in the field of Materials Science at the University of Cantabria, I have felt the necessity to include a new methodological focus. The basis of the academic subjects related to corrosion is scientific, and we cannot ignore its effect on every industrial process and the relationship this can have with sustainability. My aim is not only provide students with knowledge about the behavior of materials but to raise their awareness of the importance of ecological considerations due to: metallic resources are overexploited, the environmental impact resulting from any failure in service is unpredictable and the necessity to point out the recycling importance.
The aim of this paper is to point out the strong relation that can be created between corrosion and sustainability.
Corrosion is a phenomenon of degradation of metallic materials that produces a great impact from a social, environmental and economic point of view. Along my personal academic experience in the field of Materials Science and Corrosion of Metallic Materials at the University of Cantabria, in different courses and schools, I have felt the necessity to include a new methodological focus. The basis of the academic subjects related to corrosion is scientific, and we cannot ignore its effect on engineering and technological activities. But at the same time, I am starting to focus on the strong impact of corrosion on every industrial process and the relationship this can have with sustainability. My aim is not only provide students with knowledge about the behavior of materials but to raise their awareness of the importance of ecological considerations. There are different reasons for this new approach. First of all, because metallic resources are overexploted. Secondly, because the environmental impact resulting from any failure in service of a metallic structure or component that transports or contains a corrosive and toxic substance is unpredictable. Finally, because of the necessity to point out the importance of recycling and recovering metallic materials that are no longer used, either because they are useless or because their utility is ignored.
The aim of this paper is to point out the strong relation that can be created between corrosion and sustainability, with the aim to avoid excessive damage to our planet, to mitigate the effect of heavy industrialization, and this goal should be also transmitted to the future generations.
The growing attention that the scientific community has paid in the last decades to the corrosion phenomena is related to the huge economic, social and environmental losses ( 3,5 % GDP in industrialized countries as USA, UK, Japan and Germany), that result from the spread of damage of several metal constructions.
Corrosion management is an essential element for the development of a sustainable industrial society, including issues such as the slection and development of corrosion resistant materials, coatings and environmental friendly inhibitors. Too, the implementation of advanced inspection and corrosion management is also a major element of progress for a sustainable development of a lot of industrial sectors with a high susceptibility to suffer corrosion, such as chemical, refinery, nuclear and petrochemical.
The undestanding of the corrosion mechanims in these environments is a first order to be used. After that, it is necessary to point out attention to the environmental impact of corrosion and to create a synergic effect betwwen corrosion and sustainbility because the materials out of use can be recycled and put into in service again.
It´s necessary to translate this focus to our students, in order to deep into corrosion phenomen itself and the relationship with sustainiblity attending to easy question that the student will be able to answer looking at around the streets for example.
The aim of this paper is to point out the strong relation that can be created between corrosion and sustainability, with the aim to avoid excessive damage to our planet, to mitigate the effect of heavy industrialization, and this goal should be also transmitted to the future generations
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Along my personal academic experience in the field of Materials Science and Corrosion of Metallic Materials at the University of Cantabria, in different courses and schools, I have felt the necessity to include a new methodological focus. The first year that I introduced the new learning methodology didn´t no produce satisfactory results, but the last two year my students have showed excellent results associated to a great interest in order to deep into the new focus, i.e. : first to introduce the basis of the academic subjects related to corrosion and afterward to create the strong relation with sustainability with a lot of examples that appear at newspaper, looking at around themselves and visiting different industrial sectors.
There are little information about the relationship about corrosion and sustainability on bibliographic sources, as books like as scientific journal with high impact number. So, I consider that the innovations aspects is try to translate to our students the strong relationship between science, engineering, tecnology, sustainibility. In this sense, I am putting attention to this new subject in order to reach to a real and possible equilibrium between corrosion and sustainability,
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