The article presents a review of literature which covers aspects of pitting corrosion observed
in metallic materials, focussing on events associated with nucleation of pits, ie passivity …

External corrosion assessments of pipeline systems encompass two critical factors: time and
space (location). Field measurement databases, laboratory testing, and theoretical …

Extreme value theory is unique as a statistical discipline in that it develops techniques and
models for describing the unusual rather than the usual. As an abstract study of random …

For many structural design problems univariate extreme value theory is applied to quantify
the risk of failure due to extreme levels of some environmental process. In practice, many …

The probability distributions of external-corrosion pit depth and pit growth rate were
investigated in underground pipelines using Monte Carlo simulations. The study combines a …

A predictive model for pitting corrosion in buried pipelines is proposed. The model takes into
consideration the chemical and physical properties of the soil and pipe to predict the time …

Publisher Summary This chapter proposes a model based on deterministic equations with
statistically distributed input parameters that is employed for simulating the evolution of the …

Deterioration of the built environment presently is responsible for an economical load on our
society corresponding to an estimated 10% of the GDP on an annual basis. It is evident that …

Corrosion science has been based mainly upon deterministic approaches, particularly the
electrochemical theory of corrosion. Localized corrosion, however, cannot be explained …

Localized corrosion in the form of pitting in certain classes of aluminum alloys, eg 2024-T3
and 7075-T6, is recognized as one of the degradation mechanisms that affect the durability …