Visual aids (films, videos & software)

Visual aids include films, film strips, slides, wall-charts, video cassettes and computer software.


The European Federation of Corrosion has sponsored the production of three films, now available on a single video cassette:

Corrosion Prevention by Design 20 mins European Federation of Corrosion, c/o The Institute of Materials (See below) VHS video, colour, sound (English) Considers factors to be taken care of at design stage: avoidance of crevices, stress and dissimilar metals in contact; geometry to favour complete drainage of water and access for maintenance.

Corrosion Control by Protective Coating 21 mins European Federation of Corrosion, c/o The Institute of Materials (See below) VHS video, colour, sound (English) Describes various coating methods to prevent corrosion of steel - metallic coatings, rubber or plastics and paint.

Corrosion Prevention by Changing the Environment 27 mins European Federation of Corrosion, c/o The Institute of Materials (See below) VHS video, colour, sound (English) Considers reduction of corrosion by cathodic protection, by removal of oxygen from water and moisture from the air and by the use of inhibitors. Gives the basic electrochemical background to the effects observed.

Full particulars of the video and order forms for purchase are available from The Institute of Materials, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DB, Tel: +44 (0) 171 451 7300 Fax: +44 (0) 171 839 2289 VAT Registration Number GB 649 1646 11 E-mail: Internet: www.materials.org.uk Registered Charity No. 269275

The following list gives information on some other films, cassettes and videos available in the UK.

DENSO Pipeline Protection Approx. 7 mins Winn and Coales (Denso, Ltd.), Denso House, Chapel Road, London, SE27 OTR, UK. VHS PAL Available from the Company's Technical Service Department Features Denso tape and liquid coating protection for pipes and pipelines including mobile wrapping rigs for fast in-situ application of products.

Winn & Coales International Approx. 12 mins Winn and Coales (Denso, Ltd.), Denso House, Chapel Road, London, SE27 OTR, UK. VHS PAL Available from the Company's Technical Service Department Provides an overview of the company’s activities in corrosion prevention and sealing

Zerust - VCI Corrosion Prevention Approx 20 mins ZERUST (U.K.) LIMITED Meadowfield Avenue, Green Lane Industrial Estate, Spennymoor, Co. Durham, DL16 6YJ VHS PAL Available from the company’s Technical Department Covers corrosion and the electrolytic cell and examines how volatile corrosion inhibitor works and different metal types. The video also covers the history of VCI in film packaging and different product formats available

Zerust - Variables in VCI Corrosion Prevention Approx. 25 mins ZERUST (U.K.) LIMITED Meadowfield Avenue, Green Lane Industrial Estate, Spennymoor, Co. Durham, DL16 6YJ VHS PAL Available from the company’s Technical Department Looks at process factors which may cause or affect corrosion control and features two case histories.

Other visual aids include:

Marine Corrosion, produced by Galland J, Ecole Centrale, Paris, 92295, Chatenay Malabry Paris, BP Cedex, France.

Types of corrosion, 88 slides. 1990, The Corrosion Society of Finland, FINNCORR, 02151 Espoo, P.O. Box 383, Finland.

Technical protective painting planning guidelines for designers. Video training programmes, Corrocoat, Consulting Engineers Pekka Pentinsaari, SF-02130 Espoo Finland 1985. Overall playing time 9 h 20 min.

Sets of slides and transparencies on corrosion are available from Force Institutes, The Danish Corrosion Centre, Park Alle 345, DK 2605 Broendby and also from Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, Karlstraße 21, Frankfurt/M, Germany.

Computer aided learning (CAL) software for personal computers is the latest development in trianing aids to help engineers learn about corrosion principles and corrosion control measures.

Ecorr
A problem-solving approach to learning which uses individual modules to teach particular aspects of corrosion engineering by means of both real and hypothetical case studies. It can be used a support to the teaching of corrosion to engineering and technology students, as a revision resource for students at undergraduate and possibly post graduate level, for the in-house training of engineers, as distance learning materials for students, and as a general reference resource in corrosion engineering. There is also an Ecorr Support Club to provide general support in the use of Ecorr, technical support and free updates of new software. The Ecorr package can be run directly from the CD-ROM drive or installed on the hard disk or run from a local area network. The minimum system requirements are a 486 PC with at least 8 Mb RAM running Windows 3.1 or higher, a double speed CD-ROM, 18 Mb free hard disk space and a VGA monitor with 256 colour display. For further details write to: Dr R A Cottis, Corrosion and Protection Centre, UMIST, P.O. Box 88, Manchester M80 1QD, UK (Fax: +44 161 200 4865, E-mail: )

Active Library on Corrosion
A CD ROM for use in IBM or IBM-compatible PCs with a 486 or higher processor, 16 MB RAM, 1 MB video card, 4X CD-ROM player and 40 MB of free hard disk space. This is targeted to those knowledgeable in corrosion problems and is intended to allow the expert to replace several books, standards, specifications, databases, and other aids for corrosion diagnosis and/or design against corrosion. It is described by the editor, W S Bogaerts, and co-editors K S Agema, V T Thuy and J H Zheng as a ‘hypermedia system’ which means that the hard work of looking things up in many books etc. can be reduced to answering or inputting questions from or to the computer. It not only opens the books so that one can browse through the pages, but the user can look up key words. Published by Elsevier, Amsterdam/NACE International, Houston, TX, the second edition, 1998, contains the complete texts of eleven corrosion textbooks, extracts from three journals, recent updates of the NACE International Book of Standards, a Glossary of about 1000 corrosion-related terms, NACE International’s COR*SUR and COR*SUR 2 materials selection databases (dealing with metals and non-metals, respectively), and a special section on corrosion control written by W F Bogaerts and K S Agema. In all, the contents include 22,000 documents, 4400 illustrations and 2500 tables of data.

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