Call for Papers: Progress in corrosion control technologies for extending the safe operational life of engineering infrastructure

Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology, June 2025 Special Issue

Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology is accepting papers for its June 2025 special issue on Progress in corrosion control technologies for extending the safe operational life of engineering infrastructure.

Corrosion has been a tenacious threat to the integrity and safety of the huge network of energy industrial infrastructure assets. It is evident by many publicly reported catastrophic engineering structure failures and an enormous amount of unreported infrastructure incidents occurring on ‘invisible’ and highly variable engineering structures such as underground oil and gas pipelines and offshore energy infrastructure. In the emerging renewable energy economy, corrosion engineering is expected to play an even more important role because corrosion and materials degradation are expected to significantly affect the safety, durability, and sustainability of essential infrastructure required for the production, delivery, storage and utilization of renewable energy such as wind, solar, hydrogen, geothermal, hydropower, ocean and bioenergy.

To decarbonise our economy, a huge network of renewable energy infrastructure will need to be built both onshore and offshore, often at remote locations. Corrosion, corrosion fatigue, stress corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement and other forms of materials degradation will pose major challenges to critical components of energy infrastructure that often operate in extreme and complex environmental conditions. Currently wind farms are designed only for 20-30 years due to the degradation of wind turbines. Such short design life is unsustainable, not only from lifecycle assessment point of view, but also for generating significant materials wastage. The life of many components in renewable energy systems such as batteries, electrolysis and fuel cells are also affected by corrosion and materials degradation. The safe operational life of major renewable energy infrastructures needs to be significantly extended, ideally towards 100 years or more, to achieve satisfactory feasibility and sustainability for the future renewable energy-based economy. This special issue will discuss and present recently developed methods and materials that aim at enhancing the durability of engineering structures especially future renewable energy infrastructure. These include but not limited to,

• corrosion detection and monitoring technologies and advanced corrosion predicting tools for the prevention of premature failure of engineering structures;
• new anti-corrosion materials such as coatings for repairing local damage on engineering structures such as offshore structures;
• closed-loop cathodic protection and inhibitor applications methods;
• protective corrosion management through incorporating data analytics, artificial intelligence and predictive modelling;
• new infrastructure rehabilitation materials and methods.

Please ensure your manuscript follow the Submission Guidelines of this journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/CES

Please submit your articles via the online submission site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cest

Key dates:

• Submission deadline: 30 April 2025 
• Completion of review process: 31 June 2025
• Targeted publication date: 31 July 2025

Editor:
 
Mike Yongjun Tan, PhD, FNACE/AMPP
Professor of Applied Electrochemistry and Corrosion Technologies
School of Engineering / Institute for Frontier Materials
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
Deakin University 

Editor email: [email protected]