**6.1 Wrapping steel cable**

Wrapping steel cables with materials like plastics, and neoprene rubber to avoid steel cable deterioration by preventing the steel cable to contact with water is a common strategy for already deteriorated steel cables. This technique is used to prevent further deterioration and constraint fatigue. The main drawback of wrapping is that it hides the steel cable for inspection, and it can still generate the electrochemical cell by localized moisture content. This technique is dependent on the location of the application. For example, sometimes elastomeric paint is used instead of elastomeric wrapping (**Figure 25**) [6].

**Figure 24.** *Steel cable internal corrosion - strand gap.*

#### **Figure 25.** *Wrapping steel cable.*
