... 2022 06 05 2022 coast guard corrosion cutters marine navy outlier pitting ship structure underwater vessel The U. S. Coast Guard (USCG) owns and operates a fleet of cutters, some of which have either reached or are approaching the end of their structural design lives...

... the experiments and the developed methodology help to segregate the faults into appropriate class, identify the severity of the suction blockage, and substantiate the practical applicability of this study. Failure Fault tree Marine Mechanical Water Fig. 6 Blockage level versus average...

... on thickness measurements separately for different structural element types [ 16 – 18 ]. Such approaches represent the state-of-the-art in the marine industry. The most common inspection method for estimating corrosion loss is to perform thickness...