Sander, GCruz, VictorBhat, NinadBirbilis, Nick2023-08-090010-938Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/295390Metastable pitting upon 316L stainless steel was studied herein. The combination of electrochemical testing, in-situ imaging and ex-situ characterisation was carried out to address the following questions: Does each metastable pit site correspond to a single current transient or do multiple metastable pits occur at the same site? Is each recorded current transient a unique individual metastable pitting event? Does the calculated metal loss from electrochemical testing reconcile to physical damage? The results herein respond to these questions, and additionally, a user tool for analysis of metastable pitting is also presented herein.application/pdfen-AU© 2020 The authorsPitting corrosionStainless steelPotentiostaticPolarisationElectrochemical calculation202010.1016/j.corsci.2020.1090042022-07-24