A generic framework to support computer-based characterization of materials and corrosion problems has been developed. This paper examines potential applications of this framework which provides an
object-based model to partition and represent corrosion and materials domain knowledge in terms of domain objects. Since the framework allows characterization of objects in terms of system parameters
and their inter-relationships as a means to represent the state of the system, the framework facilitates representation of problem-solving objects in a domain-independent manner. The framework has been
implemented as a Windows TM -based software tool and applications of the framework to three disparate case studies in corrosion and materials have been described to demonstrate the generic nature of the system.
Keywords: Generic, problem-solving, object oriented, parameters, template, materials, corrosion, abstraction