APEC Workshop on AI in Atmospheric Corrosion Assessment to Address Climate Change Impact

Climate change causes extreme weather events, increasing the risk of structural failure before their design lifetime. Due to unique atmospheric factors in each economy, it is necessary to collect and analyze domestic data to obtain artificial intelligent (AI) corrosion prediction tools for adaptation and mitigation. The APEC workshop on AI in Atmospheric Corrosion Assessment to Address Climate Change Impact was organized on 30 – 31 July 2024 in Thailand, which highlighted corrosion monitoring, corrosion mapping, and corrosion predictions by statistical model and AI models. The impact of climate change on the corrosion rate of steel structure could be predicted and applied to sustainable steel structure design. The workshop discussed the common goal to reduce CO₂ emissions, with various recommendations for action plan for a better maintenance program for aging infrastructure, universal standard for atmospheric corrosion database collection method, and circular economy approach.