Corrosion damage of equipment, production facilities and infrastructure, has severe consequences including loss of property, interruption of production and transportation, and outage of electricity, water and gas supplies. The corrosion cost is invariably high, at a few percentage points of GDP annually (for example 3.1% of GDP in the US). This article provides a brief introduction to the history and the activities of the Corrosion Division of ECS. The article then highlights the various feature articles in this Divisional issue, focusing on numerical approaches to corrosion science and engineering. These articles include information on the fundamental numerical modeling of localized corrosion using FEM, a practical corrosion prediction method for large-scale structures using the boundary element method, the most recent ab initio calculations on corrosion processes at the atomistic scale, and deterministic and stochastic approaches to describing the pitting corrosion process on stainless steel.
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