Evaluation of soil accelerated corrosion of typical grounding materials used for electrical equipment

At present, research methods for soil corrosion include sample weight loss methods, physical and chemical properties research, electrochemical research, indoor accelerated corrosion tests, etc. However, most existing soil corrosion evaluation methods have many drawbacks, such as high research costs, long experimental cycles, long results transformation cycles, and significant environmental limitations. In this paper, based on the electrochemical test results of environmental corrosion factors using typical grounding materials, a corrosion simulation solution load spectrum and an accelerated corrosion experimental system corresponding to the soil corrosion environment level were established. The accelerated corrosion samples were thoroughly studied and analyzed using macroscopic morphology observation, microscopic morphology analysis, and energy spectrum analysis. The results show that the soil accelerated corrosion method has strong stability and small deviation, which applies to the study of accelerated corrosion in the soil environment of grounding materials.