Accelerated laboratory tests are commonly used for judging the performance of coatings for corrosion
protection. Assessment could be done by comparison of systems or measuring the damages after the
test, mainly the rusting on the scratch, and checked against fixed boundary values.
In this study common test methods like salt spray (ISO 7253), as well as cyclic test (NORSOK M-501,
ISO 20340) were checked and compared to each other by statistical calculations. By that any
relationship between the different tests were figured out. The cycle test according ISO 20340 for
offshore structures is relatively new and experiences in practice are limited. Immediately the test
procedure indicates that results using this method that only systems with zinc-dust primers passed the
test and many well established coating systems failed. The statistical calculations in this work showed,
that the test procedure can be shortened by nearly a factor of two to reach comparable results to other
accelerated tests and by that time and money will be saved.