“…External corrosion rate (CR) in buried pipelines remains as a topic of interesting research (Quej-Ake et al , 2017; Quej-Ake et al , 2015; Quej-Ake et al , 2014; Elboujdaini et al , 1994; Orlov, 2008; Benmoussat and Hadjel, 2005; Velázquez et al , 2010; Liu et al , 2012; Charles and Parkins, 1995; Yan et al , 2008; Bradford, 2001; Yan et al , 2008; Mendili et al , 2014; Cole and Marney, 2012; Yan et al , 2014; Liu et al , 2008; Rim-rukeh and Awatefe, 2006; Alamilla et al , 2009). One of them is associated with the generalized corrosion studies for low carbon steel exposed to clay soils (Velázquez et al , 2010); another research is related to the corrosion process for X52 steel exposed to clay–silt soil (a type of soil collected from marshy zones) at a different moisture content (Quej-Ake et al , 2014; Garg et al , 2014) and for representative soil solutions which are considered as neutral solutions (Benmoussat and Hadjel, 2005; Velázquez et al , 2010).…”