The critical role of marine bacterial processes in the development of models for pitting corrosion of structural steels

Title: The critical role of marine bacterial processes in the development of models for pitting corrosion of structural steels
Creator: Melchers, R. E.
Relation: First International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE'08). Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (Lake Como, Italy 10-14 June, 2008) p. 203-208
Relation: http://www.ialcce08.org/Proceedings.html
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2008
Description: The modelling of both short- and long-term corrosion loss and maximum pit depth is increasingly of interest to engineers and others interested in prediction the remaining life of coastal and ocean infrastructure. This paper reviews a recent advanced modelling approach and simplifies this to development of a model for predicting maximum pit depth for mild steel subject to long-term marine environment exposure. A crucial aspect is that the model development considers, for the first time and explicitly, the influence of microbially induced corrosion (MIC). It is shown that uncertainty in longer-term pitting depth is likely to be time-invariant and is best represented by a Frechet distribution.
Subject: corrosion loss; pit depth; modelling; marine environment exposure; microbially induced corrosion
Identifier: uon:6196
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/802769
Identifier: ISBN:9780415468572
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