Obtaining Corrosion Rates by Bayesian Estimation: Numerical Simulation Coupled with Data

摘要

Protecting structures from corrosion is one of the most important challenges in engineering. Cathodic protection using sacrificial anodes or impressing current from electrodes is applied to many marine structures. Prediction of the corrosion rates of structures and the design of cathodic protection systems have been traditionally based on past experience with a limited number of empirical formulae. Recently, application of numerical methods such as the boundary element method (BEM) or finite element method (FEM) to corrosion problems has been studied intensively,18 and these methods have become powerful tools in the study of corrosion problems.