Protecting Stored Critical Parts from Corrosion and Heat Damage

Abstract

The GAO has identified corrosion as the single largest controllable cost in the weapons system life cycle with more than $20B spent annually to fight the effects of. * In 2003, the GAO report on Corrosion in the DoD (GAO-03-753) estimated that the Army's 2,770 helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft require $4B in corrosion repair annually (this translates to $1.4MM per aircraft per year in corrosion-related repair costs) "Provide shelters and humidity-controlled protection for equipment stored outside. A previous research task showed reduction in corrosion by a factor of 65 from protected storage over uncovered storage." DoD Report to Congress on Long-term Strategy to Reduce Corrosion and the Effects of Corrosion, Table III-2 "Storage in controlled temperature/humidity buildings is of course, ideal."

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA533760

Entities

People

  • Chip Crotty

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Pollutants
  • Aircrafts
  • Controlled Environment
  • Corrosion
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Embedded Systems
  • Environment
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Governments
  • Handbooks
  • Heat Energy
  • High Temperature
  • Humidity
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Polymer Degradation
  • Vapor Pressure

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
  • Materials Science and Engineering.