Ship design methods improving in the aspect of the technical requirement regulations for electrochemical protection
In order to substantiate the prerequisites for revising the technical requirements for the protective potential of the cathodic protection systems regulations for various categories of shipbuilding steels, a type of electrochemical protection has been identified that has a smaller mass in the load of the vessel masses, a feasibility study for the use of this protection type has been carried out, the minimum value of the ships displacement has been determined, for which the above hypotheses are confirmed. The advantages of using the cathodic protection developed model of marine vessels and floating technical structures from local forms of corrosion-mechanical damage at the potential of an uncharged surface on a juvenile steel surface are given. A regulation of actions and a list of documents necessary to improve the technical requirements for the protective potential of cathodic protection systems for various categories of shipbuilding steels have been prepared in order to identify inaccuracies in the values of the protective potential and change it, which will have a positive effect in the design of ship structures.