CORROSION Editorial Board
Gerald S. Frankel
Dr. Gerald S. Frankel is the DNV Designated Chair in Corrosion, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Director of the Fontana Corrosion Center at The Ohio State University. He earned a Sc.B. degree in Materials Science Engineering from Brown University and a Sc.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT. Prior to joining OSU in 1995, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Technical Institute in Zurich and then a Research Staff Member at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.
His primary research interests are in the passivation and localized corrosion of metals and alloys, corrosion inhibition, protective coatings, and atmospheric corrosion. He is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of the Electrochemical Society, CORROSION, Materials and Corrosion, and Corrosion Reviews, past chairman of the Corrosion Division of The Electrochemical Society, and past chairman of the Research Committee of NACE.
Dr. Frankel is a fellow of NACE International, The Electrochemical Society, and ASM International. He received the W.R. Whitney Award from NACE International in 2015, the U.R. Evans Award from the UK Institute of Corrosion in 2011, OSU Distinguished Scholar Award in 2010, the 2010 ECS Corrosion Division H.H. Uhlig Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award for Senior US Scientists in 2004, the 2007 and 2013 TP Hoar Prize from the UK Institute of Corrosion, the 2000 Uhlig Award from NACE, and the Harrison Faculty Award from the OSU College of Engineering in 2000. From 2012-2016, he served as a member of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board after being appointed by President Barak Obama.
In 2016, he became the director of a DOE-funded Engineering Frontier Research Center focused on the performance of nuclear waste forms.
Research Interests: localized corrosion, passivity, coatings, inhibitors
Selected Publications from CORROSION:
G.S. Frankel, L. Stockert, F. Hunkeler, H. Boehni, “Metastable Pitting of Stainless Steel,” Corrosion 43, 7 (1987): p. 429-436. https://doi.org/10.5006/1.3583880
T. Ramgopal, P.I. Gouma, G.S. Frankel, “Role of Grain-Boundary Precipitates and Solute-Depleted Zone on the Intergranular Corrosion of Aluminum Alloy 7150,” Corrosion 58, 8 (2002): p. 687-697. https://doi.org/10.5006/1.3287699
F. Hunkeler, G.S. Frankel, H. Bohni, “On the Mechanism of Localized Corrosion,” Corrosion 43, 3 (1987): p. 189-191. https://doi.org/10.5006/1.3583134
G.S. Frankel, Z. Xia, “Localized Corrosion and Stress Corrosion Cracking Resistance of Friction Stir Welded Aluminum Alloy 5454,” Corrosion 55, 2 (1999): p. 139-150. https://doi.org/10.5006/1.3283974
A.K. Mishra, G.S. Frankel, “Crevice Corrosion Repassivation of Alloy 22 in Aggressive Environments,” Corrosion 64, 11 (2008): p. 836-844. https://doi.org/10.5006/1.3279917
