The corrosion wastage of deck plates of ballast and cargo tanks is analyzed based on a nonlinear corrosion model. This model is able to describe an initial period without corrosion due to the presence of a corrosion protection system, a transition period with a nonlinear increase of wastage up to a steady state of long-term corrosion wastage. This model is applied to corrosion wastage data of deck plates collected by the American Bureau of Shipping. The objective of this work is to fit this corrosion wastage model to the service measured data, determining the values of the model parameters that represent the best fit to the data so as to describe how corrosion wastage varies in time as a result of generalized corrosion.

Issue Section:
Technical Papers
Keywords:
corrosion, plates (structures), tanks (containers), ships
Topics:
Corrosion, Plates (structures)
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