From the Editors

Over the 46 years since it was first published, Shreir’s Corrosion has sustained its reputation as a major educational and reference work on all aspects of corrosion science and engineering. For the Third Edition, Lionel enlisted the assistance of Tim Burstein and Ray Jarman to edit the work, and his good judgement was reflected in its continuing quality and popularity. So, in agreeing to take on the task of editing a Fourth Edition of Shreir, we were keenly aware of our responsibility to maintain the reputation that the work has earned amongst our peers in the corrosion science and engineering communities, not to mention the wider engineering community. 

In approaching a Fourth Edition, we decided to depart from the structure of previous editions and rebalance the content of the work to reflect the major advances that have been made since the work was first published in the techniques available for corrosion research, in our understanding of the mechanisms of aqueous and high temperature corrosion, and in the development of practices for the control and management of corrosion. Thus, we have commissioned new contributions on experimental techniques for the study of corrosion and the modeling and prediction of corrosion behavior, and in an era of intense societal pressures to prevent major incidents that threaten safety, health, and the environment, we have commissioned contributions on the management of corrosion in mature industries.

In making significant changes, we have been concerned to retain the essential character of Shreir’s Corrosion, which has always doubled as part textbook and part reference work. As such, we hope that it will retain its wide appeal to all with a professional interest or involvement in corrosion, including graduate and post graduate students, academics who teach corrosion courses or who have active corrosion research interests, and scientists and engineers of any discipline working as corrosion professionals in research or consulting, in supplying corrosion control services or corrosion resistant materials, or in organizations that operate physical assets of any type that are vulnerable to corrosion.

We would like to record our gratitude to our many authors from around the world for their willingness to produce chapters in times when both effort and time are scarcer commodities than used to be the case in professional life. We decided to retain some "old master" contributions from Lionel Shreir, Tim Burstein, and Redvers Parkins on fundamental topics that are essentially timeless. We have contributed some chapters ourselves and, as anyone previously involved in editing an undertaking such as this will understand, have attempted to update one or two existing chapters in haste where prospective authors were unable to deliver. While the outcome may not be perfect, we hope sincerely that it will prove as valuable to the corrosion science and engineering communities worldwide as its predecessors and, in so doing, will help repay our collective dues to Lionel Shreir, who started it all.

Finally, we record our gratitude to the Elsevier development and production staff who kept us on task throughout the project and worked so hard for a successful outcome, in particular: Arnout Jacob, Adrian Shell, Natalia Kennedy, Nicola Lally, Simon Wood, Hilary Broadribb, Melinda Debreczeni, Beckie Brand, Fiona Geraghty, Hazel Harris, Bob Donaldson and last, but very definitely not least, Kostas Marinakis. 

RAC/MJG/RL/SBL/JAR/JDS/FHS

Corrosion & Protection Centre
School of Materials
University of Manchester

Meet the Editors

Professor Robert (Bob) Cottis
Bob Cottis was awarded a PhD in 1973 for his work on electrodeposition in the fluidized electrode at the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science at Cambridge. With a focus on corrosion fatigue, he worked as a project and research manager at the Fulmer Research Institute. He joined the Corrosion and Protection Centre, UMIST, in 1979.

Professor Michael (Mike) Graham

Professor Graham graduated from the University of Liverpool with a BSc (chemistry) and a PhD (surface science), before accepting in 1965 a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). He was also a research officer at Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories before returning to NRC, becoming in 1977 head of metallic corrosion and oxidation, and later group leader of surfaces and interfaces. He is currently an NRC researcher emeritus and for many years has been a visiting professor at the Corrosion and Protection Centre.

Professor Graham is a past chairman of the International Corrosion Council, recipient of the W. R. Whitney Award of NACE International, Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee Medal, H. H. Uhlig Award of the Electrochemical Society, U. R. Evans Award of the Institute of Corrosion, and the T. P. Hoar Prize of the Institute of Corrosion. His research interests include thin film formation on metals and semiconductors, high temperature oxidation, and surface passivation and film breakdown. He has over 260 publications.

Dr. Robert Lindsay

Rob received a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Bristol, and a PhD from the University of Liverpool. He has had appointments at a number of research institutions, including the Fritz-Haber-Institut (Berlin), Cambridge University, and the CSIC Institute of Materials (ICMAB) in Barcelona. Currently, he serves as a lecturer in the Corrosion and Protection Centre, University of Manchester.

Rob’s research examines surfaces under controlled conditions to elucidate nanoscale details, focusing primarily on geometric structure determination. His current work applies such an approach to understand corrosion inhibition at the atomic/molecular level. Rob has published more than 60 articles, including several reviews.

Professor Stuart Lyon
Professor Lyon earned his PhD from Cambridge, where he focused on metallurgy and solid-state electrochemistry. He arrived in Manchester at the Corrosion and Protection Centre (CPC) in 1983, where he has since pursued a variety of research interests, including ionic, electronic, and mass transport in polymers and polymeric coatings; barrier properties; surface chemistry for adhesion, local chemical and physical properties; corrosion inhibition; and electrochemical modeling.

Professor Tony Richardson

Tony Richardson graduated from UMIST in the 1960s with a BSc (chemistry) and a PhD (corrosion) degrees. He spent most of his career in industry, working as a materials/corrosion engineer, initially for Unilever, and subsequently for ICI PLC, where he led the company’s materials engineering group. For five years in the 1970s Tony was a full-time academic in the Corrosion and Protection Centre at UMIST. When he returned to industry, he retained his association with UMIST/University of Manchester, contributing to the Corrosion and Protection Centre as a visiting professor, and also more widely as a Royal Academy of Engineering visiting professor in the principles of engineering design. He has also served on the research boards of the Welding Institute in the UK and the Materials Technology Institute in the USA. He retired from ICI PLC in 2000 to form Anticorrosion Consulting, which offers independent materials/corrosion consultancy to the chemical process industries.

Tony has been a regular organizer and contributor to international corrosion conferences, served on the editorial board of Corrosion Engineering, Science & Technology for many years, and has contributed regularly to the research and practice literature. In 1979, he was a first recipient of the Guy Bengough medal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Professor David Scantlebury

Professor Scantlebury’s research interests and teaching activities are closely interrelated. For the whole of his academic career he has explored “the strange situation between a potentially corroding metal and the organic coating that is placed on that metal with the intention of preventing corrosion of that metal.” Attracted by the fascinating blend of knowledge and disciplines required to analyze this situation—including metallurgy, surface science, adhesion, electrochemistry, and polymer science—he works to find real solutions to real problems.
 
Other related research interests include marine corrosion, cathodic protection, and the corrosion and corrosion control of rebar steel in concrete. Professor Scantlebury teaches all of these subjects in the MSc in Corrosion Control Engineering and gives two undergraduate lectures in the Materials Science degree course. Since 1989, he has organized a five yearly international conference on corrosion protection by organic coatings, and he holds a visiting Chair in the Department of Chemistry, University of Xiamen, China.

Professor Howard Stott

Howard Stott graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA (metallurgy) degree in 1967 and from UMIST with a PhD degree in high-temperature oxidation in 1970. He was a post-doctoral research associate before being appointed lecturer in the Corrosion and Protection Centre, UMIST, in 1972. He was promoted to senior lecturer, followed by reader, and then professor in 1990. He was administrative head of the Corrosion and Protection Centre for three 3-year periods from 1987 until 2003 and was operations director of The Materials Performance Centre for the following two years. He was awarded a DSc degree by the University of Manchester in 1984.

During his career at UMIST, he led a research group in the field of high-temperature degradation and protection of materials, with over 50 research students and 30 PDRAs. He served on the editorial advisory boards of Oxidation of Metals, Corrosion Science, Materials and Corrosion, and Materials at High Temperature for many years. He was elected fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2001 and was awarded the UR Evans Award by the Institute of Corrosion in the same year.

He retired from the University of Manchester (formerly UMIST) in 2006 and now lives in Vancouver, Canada.