Reliability and corrosion

The author is Head of the Materials Engineering Section at the Pacific Naval Laboratory (Defence Research Board of Canada) where he has been since 1952. He has a B.A.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an S.M. in Physical Metallurgy from M.I.T. He has had varied industrial experience as well as two years on staff at the University of British Columbia. He is a member of AIME and of the B.C. Association of Professional Engineers. He has presented papers on Metallurgy and Corrosion topics before several technical organizations in Canada, the U.S., and abroad. This paper was presented to the American Society of Navel Engineers, and published in their journal in April 1966.