The final goal for the JIPs is to provide some guidelines and design tools for estimating the corrosion and wear of wire rope and chain. Those that are currently in design codes appear inappropriate for the results have been derived from measurements in cold waters. Experiments show that the corrosion rate grows exponentially with temperature.

JIPs will investigate the two main degradation mechanisms for chain and rope as both in-situ experiments and laboratory tests will be performed to validate models describing these phenomena, as detailed in the SCORCH JIPs proposal. A series of field tests on wires, wire ropes and chain samples will be conducted to quantify the effects of external factors driving corrosion within marine environments. Small and full scale measurements will be used to calibrate wear and corrosion models.

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