Dear Colleagues,

Corrosion is a dangerous and extremely costly problem. By degrading and destroying materials, almost all infrastructure and complex industrial systems are greatly impacted in terms of reliability, safety, durability, and sustainability, causing serious economic losses and environmental damage, and even threatening the public safety of society.

In order to reduce the huge cost and impact of corrosion on the environment, the expectations of society and individuals in terms of safety and interests increasingly emphasize extending the service life of major infrastructure and large industrial system assets such as buildings, bridges, power generation facilities, pipelines, ships, offshore and coastal structures, and reducing maintenance times and maintenance costs. Additionally, people are increasingly demanding for the safety and reliability of existing facilities to be evaluated and their remaining life to be estimated if possible. This involves the evolution of corrosion law and even the change of corrosion mechanisms in the long-term service of materials. At present, traditional corrosion science has not really dealt with these problems but still focuses on improving the understanding of the basic processes involved (only limited to corrosion initiation and short-term processes). However, the data of the time scale (from decades (construction) to tens of thousands of years (nuclear waste disposal)) in which infrastructure is interested are limited. If the understanding of various potential environmental impacts may be important to some extent, then these data are even more limited. This is especially true if the protective coating or cathodic protection system or other protection systems are unreliable throughout the life expectancy of the infrastructure, or if these systems have failed. In this case, it is important to understand the basic corrosion process of long-term exposure.

Therefore, the research and development of long-term corrosion damage monitoring and detection technology, and the construction of the theory and prediction model of corrosion evolution law are very important to improve the system design of corrosion prevention and control (CPC), so as to prevent or reduce corrosion, material selection, nondestructive testing, coating, finishing, cleaning materials, cleaning, repair and other maintenance activities, and successfully avoid unplanned downtime and successfully implement the life extension strategy.

This Special Issue aims to report the latest progress in the field of metal corrosion prediction and control, including corrosion mechanisms, corrosion prediction models, corrosion evolution law, corrosion monitoring and detection methods, and corrosion control techniques and methods. Progress in all aspects related to the corrosion behavior of metal materials in the atmosphere, soil, seawater, industrial environment, nuclear facilities and their post-treatment environment, cathodic protection, corrosion inhibitors, advanced coatings, computational corrosion science, artificial intelligence and machine learning progress in corrosion research, etc., is welcome.

Prof. Dr. Junhua Dong
Prof. Dr. Fahe Cao
Prof. Dr. Guozhe Meng
Prof. Dr. Zhiyong Liu
Guest Editors

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• corrosion prediction
• model
• mechanism
• evolution
• prevention
• localized corrosion
• atmospheric corrosion
• marine corrosion
• soil corrosion
• microstructure