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ACA Student Member Discount – Only $10 For The First 100 Sign Ups!

ACA Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Are you a registered student in a secondary or tertiary institution looking for a future in our industry as a trades person, engineer or scientist? Do you know someone who would like to become engaged with the Corrosion Prevention, Coatings, Integrity or Materials Engineering…

Corrosion Students – Last Chance to Submit Your Brian Cherry Award Forum Abstracts

ACA Monday, August 16, 2021

The Brian Cherry Award Forum is open to postgraduate and final year undergraduate research students studying at an Australasian University. Applicants could be studying any aspect of corrosion, including but not limited to metallic and non-metallic corrosion, corrosion management, corrosion mitigation, and…

Announcing 2021 ACA Scholarships

ACA Thursday, August 12, 2021

The Australasian Corrosion Association and the ACA Foundation are excited to announce that we're officially opening the applications for a whopping 25 scholarships valued at over 50,000 dollars! We're incredibly grateful that with the support of the ACA Foundation and the generous…

88th Australian Electrolysis Committee Meeting Event Review

ACA Tuesday, August 10, 2021

On July 15th 2021, the Australian Electrolysis Committee met for the 88th time to host a hybrid version of the biannual meeting from the ACA Head Office in Preston. If you missed out on attending on the day, we've uploaded all seven…

Guide for the Measurement of Electrolysis Corrosion Interference

ACA Monday, August 9, 2021

The ACA would like to extend our thanks to Jim Hickey for providing this Guide for the benefit of ACA members. The NSW Electrolysis Committee was established in 1932 to provide guidance to the Electricity Authority of NSW on the control of…

The Aude Sapere – ACA Training Commitment Award

ACA Friday, July 30, 2021

The Aude Sapere - ACA Training Commitment Award recognises an ACA Member organisation’s ongoing commitment to the training and professional development of their staff. First awarded in 2018, it recognises the organisation that has put the most staff through ACA delivered training…

New Volunteering Opportunities

ACA Thursday, July 22, 2021

Our Association owes a great deal of its success to the great work done by over 100 volunteers at any given time. Joining one of our committees is a fantastic way to make deep ties and enact positive change across our Association.…

Cathodic Protection in Hazardous Areas

ACA Thursday, July 22, 2021

Cathodic protection by impressed current or galvanic methods are in common use for the protection of corrosion in steel structures such as pipes, tanks, wharves and bridges. Both methods of cathodic protection are electrical processes that involve voltages and currents being introduced…

Automatic Detection and Classification of Corrosion with Convolutional Neural Networks

ACA Thursday, July 22, 2021

Continuous Fabric Maintenance (FM) is crucial for uninterrupted operations on off-shore oil and gas platforms. A primary FM goal is managing corrosion onset across the platform surface. Currently, physical field inspections are conducted to detect and classify corrosion. These processes are subjective,…

Corrosion Resistance and Deterioration Behaviour of Overlapping Layer Between Thermal Spray Coating and Heavy Duty Paint Coating

ACA Thursday, July 22, 2021

To investigate the corrosion resistance of overlapping layers between Al-5Mg thermal spray coating and heavy-duty coating, this study aims to clarify the deterioration behaviours of the cases with different boundary connection modes. The linear and ribbon defects were introduced to specimens, and…