Semi-empirical modeling for seawater corrosion of wire rope

The paper proposes a semi-empirical model for the seawater corrosion of six strand wire rope. The model includes the local effects of water temperature, oxygen concentration, flow velocity, together with the location of the wire within the internal rope structure and the zone location along the rope. The analytical formulation of the model is sustained by physical considerations and calibration of the model parameters is performed against a large set of experimental results available in the literature