Title page; Contents; European Federation of Corrosion (EFC) publications: Series introduction; Volumes in the EFC series; Preface; List of symbols; 1 Introduction and rationale; 2 State-of-the-art; 3 Guidelines; 4 Results; 5 Discussion; 6 Guidelines; Appendix A Direct current (DC) results: Polarisation curves with and without albumin obtained by each laboratory; Appendix B Alternating current (AC) results: Impedance spectra obtained by each participant laboratory at 0.15 VSHE and OCP with and without albumin; References
Summary
This publication reports the results of an inter-laboratory investigation evaluating the reproducibility of electrochemical test protocols commonly used in research assessing the corrosion behaviour of biomedical CoCrMo alloys used for artificial joints
