Stochastic approach to the spatial analysis of pitting corrosion and pit interaction

This paper presents a stochastic analysis of spatial point patterns as effect of localized pitting corrosion. A test of randomness is performed by means of the inter-event distance method. The robustness of the method is tested with two artificially generated samples. The method is applied to published empirical data. The results complied when spatial regularity of pits was found and showed discrepancy when pit interaction was observed.