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REVIEW article

Front. Mater.
Sec. Environmental Degradation of Materials
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmats.2024.1399292

Review on the Progress of Corrosion Fatigue Research on Marine Structures

Provisionally accepted
Yuefu Yang Yuefu Yang *Chaohe Chen Chaohe Chen *Yifeng Zhuang Yifeng Zhuang *Zhijia Suo Zhijia Suo *
  • South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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    This paper reviews the state-of-the-art progress of corrosion fatigue research on marine structures in relation to theoretical and experimental studies, including corrosion fatigue life prediction models/methods, load-environment interaction/coupling test methods, accelerated corrosion methods in corrosion fatigue test, fatigue crack measurement and corrosion fatigue life assessment in whole life period. To date, some theoretical models and methods for predicting the corrosion fatigue life of metallic materials or structures have been proposed and applied successively. Meanwhile, the load-environment interaction/coupling test those aim to the metallic material specimens have been maturely developed and widely applied. In the recent years, some newlydeveloping corrosion fatigue theoretical and experimental methods, which based on the data-driven/machine learning and at-sea monitoring have been applied preliminarily. The review on accelerated corrosion methods, fatigue crack measurement methods and corrosion fatigue life assessment for marine structures in whole life period are undertaken by extensively referring related work conducted worldwide. Challenges and recommendations towards further developing and improving corrosion fatigue assessment methods and test techniques are also reported and discussed.

    Keywords: marine structures, corrosion fatigue, Fatigue life prediction, Crack measurement, Fatigue life

    Received: 11 Mar 2024; Accepted: 17 Jun 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Yang, Chen, Zhuang and Suo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Yuefu Yang, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
    Chaohe Chen, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
    Yifeng Zhuang, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
    Zhijia Suo, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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