A Statistical Analysis of the Fuel Tanks' Corrosion Loss over Some Aged Bulk Carriers

This paper deals with modeling corrosion wastage over the fuel tanks' structures at the exemplar of ten aged bulk carriers. In this paper, employed method might be treated as a long term one, and it is based on Weibull distribution parameters analysis. The purpose of these analyses is optimal assessing of the average corrosion losses for the bulk carriers' fuel tanks areas at different points of time during the whole period of the exploitation, due to uprising the structural stability and safety of bulk carriers in operation. Though, the applied approach, among others, might be of particular importance in determining the amounts (percentage/depths) of time-dependent corrosion losses over different areas of aging bulk carriers' fuel tanks during the operational circles, with the ultimate goal of keeping stability and safety of these vital vessels' structural components.