Laboratorio di corrosione a distanza al Politecnico di Torino

Developing laboratory experiments to teach students the problems related to the corrosion of metallic artifacts is a challenging problem. Corrosion processes develop over weeks with sudden corrosion rate changes so the students should be able to look after the specimen on a regular basis and this is often not compatible with their other duties. This project tries to address this problem by arranging an infrastructure capable of letting student to both remotely observe the corrosion evolution, but also to act on the corrosion process by changing the parameters which affect the corrosion itself. This infrastructure deploys a specific authorization procedure so that it is possible to have several corrosion tests running in parallel with all the people capable of following the evolution, but only specific students enabled to change the parameters of a specific experiment. This permits to all to observe the effect of different events and allow writing reports and discussing the effect of the different parameters.