The Marine Environment Information Data Bank and suggestion of its use

Abstract

The paper presents the Data Bank containing information on stress factors dominating in ship’s enviroment and samples of information collected in the bank. Proposals on how to apply the degradation prediction method to materials used in ship equipment are given in Part II of the paper. The presented method could be helpful in environment aggressiveness assessment, degradation, failure or damage risk assessment, selection of laboratory test type and time for an equipment guaranteed period or required durability, material durability prediction etc.