Analysis Technology and Cathodic Protection for Hull Structures of Ships and Floating Facilities

Abstract

Studies overviewed in the paper have yielded a number of new scientific results including the following: suggested is a technique for conducting experimental investigations of electrochemical characteristics of hull structures of ships and floating facilities on the juvenile surface under cathodic polarization in a test seawater solution with the use of the test facility developed for investigating electrochemical characteristics of hull structures of ships and floating facilities on the juvenile surface under cathodic polarization; obtained are the results of laboratory experiments on various shipbuilding steels without surface oxide films in test seawater solutions with a widely ranging salinity spectrum; developed is a neural network-based technique for predicting the protection potential of ships and floating facilities from local corrosion mechanical damages; developed is an algorithm for obtaining the protective potential for hull structures of ships and floating facilities; suggested is a method of protecting hull structures of ships and floating facilities by means of cathodic polarization from local corrosion mechanical damages at the potential of the uncharged surface on the juvenile surface of steel; revealed are beneficial effects of using cathodic polarization by impressed current at the potential of the uncharged surface on the juvenile surface of steel which allow the prolongation of the service life of hull structures of ships and floating facilities.

Keywords

• hull structures of ships and floating facilities
• local corrosion mechanical damage
• protective potential
• cathodic protection
• neural network-based prediction
• ship’s weight load