| Abstract Scope |
Navy corrosion is a significant issue, costing the Navy billions of dollars annually and impacting readiness. It's caused by the harsh marine environment, leading to accelerated deterioration of ships, aircraft, and other equipment. Seawater, with its high dissolved salt content, is an extremely aggressive corrodent for metals and alloys. At the Office of Naval Research, the primary focus is to create a science-based understanding of corrosion through damage evolution mechanisms, develop corrosion-informed materials concepts, and evolve surface protection and modification sciences. The growing capacity and capability of computations and data repositories, corrosion modelling and simulations, multiscale, multi-science analysis and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) has set the stage for automated decision-making processes to accelerate materials discovery and predict material life under various environmental conditions. The presentation will dwell on research programs that attempt to mitigate corrosion of Navy and Marine Corps assets. |