The use of information technology in the assessment of the corrosion damage on ship hull

Ships are designed for the operating cycle between twenty and twenty-five years. Throughout this period, it is necessary that the ships have smooth functioning, which primarily means safe navigation. Nowadays, both advanced-computer software tools and measurement equipment are used for the purpose of ship hull maintenance in ship design processes and in the different phases of their condition monitoring during the exploitation. Since corrosion is one of the key factors of degradation of the ship hull, the paper will provide the overview of information technologies and techniques that are used in the processes of measuring the degree of corrosion damage on the ship hull, condition monitoring and predictive analytics.