Toyota Laboratory Accelerated Cyclic Corrosion Test
This test procedure serves as a general purpose atmospheric corrosion test and can be applied to a wide variety of materials, coatings and interactions of materials.
It has been developed to allow the evaluation of the corrosion resistance of metals used in vehicle bodies where there is a significant influence of chloride ions, mainly as sodium chloride from winter road de-icing salt. This test is cyclic in nature, i.e.; test specimens are exposed to changing climates over time.
Test specimens are placed in an enclosed chamber and exposed to a changing climate.
The test comprises 3 alternative 24 hour single cycles, methods A, B and C.
Method A comprises 17 hours saltwater spraying, 3 hours forced drying, 2 hours saltwater dipping and finally 2 hours natural drying.
Method B comprises 1 hour saltwater spraying, 16 hours wetting, 4.5 hours forced drying, 1 hour saltwater dipping and finally 1,5 hours natural drying.
Method C comprises 4 hours saltwater spraying, 5 hours forced drying, 12 hours wetting, 2 hours forced drying and finally 1 hour natural drying.
The number of cycle repeats and therefore the test duration is variable.
