A remotely accessible laboratory for corrosion training

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 students should be able to look after the specimens 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 students to both remotely observe the corrosion evolution, but also to act on the corrosion process by changing the parameters with affect the corrosion itself. The infrastructure deploys a double level authorization procedure so that it is possible to have several corrosion tests running in parallel with all the audience capable of following their evolutions, but only specific students enabled to change the parameters of a specific experiment. This permits to all the class to observe the effect of different events and allows them writing reports and discussing the effect of the different parameters.