Corrosion of Steel in Concrete

CEMENTS AND CEMENT PASTE Portland Cement and Hydration Reactions Porosity and Transport Processes Blended Cements Common Cements Other Types of Cement TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN CONCRETE Composition of Pore Solution and Water Content Diffusion Capillary Suction Permeation Migration Mechanisms and Significant ParametersDEGRADATION OF CONCRETE Freeze - Thaw AttackAttack by Acids and Pure Water Sulfate Attack Alkali Silica Reaction Attack by Seawater GENERAL ASPECTS Initiation and Propagation of Corrosion Corrosion Rate Consequences Behavior of Other Metals CARBONATION-INDUCED CORROSION Carbonation of Concrete Initiation Time Corrosion Rate CHLORIDE-INDUCED CORROSION Pitting CorrosionCorrosion Initiation Corrosion Rate ELECTROCHEMICAL ASPECTS Electrochemical Mechanism of Corrosion Noncarbonated Concrete without Chlorides Carbonated Concrete Concrete Containing Chlorides Structures under Cathodic or Anodic Polarization MACROCELLS Structures Exposed to the Atmosphere Buried Structures and Immersed Structures Electrochemical Aspects Modeling of Macrocells STRAY-CURRENT-INDUCED CORROSION DC Stray Current AC Stray Current High-Strength Steel Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Inspection Protection from Stray Current HYDROGEN-INDUCED STRESS CORROSION CRACKING Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) Failure under Service of High-Strength Steel Metallurgical, Mechanical and Load Conditions Environmental Conditions Hydrogen Generated during Operation Hydrogen Generated before Ducts Are Filled Protection of Prestressing Steel DESIGN FOR DURABILITY Factors Affecting Durability Approaches to Service-Life Modeling The Approach of the European Standards The fi b Model Code for Service-Life Design for Chloride-Induced Corrosion Other Methods Additional Protection Measures Costs CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY FOR CORROSION PREVENTIONConstituents of Concrete Properties of Fresh and Hardened Concrete Requirements for Concrete and Mix Design Concrete Production Design Details Concrete with Special Properties CORROSION

Luca Bertolini is professor of construction materials and durability at the Civil and Building Engineering Schools of Politecnico di Milano. His scientific activity deals with durability of building materials, focusing on corrosion of steel in concrete and its prevention.Bernhard Elsener is professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Cagliari, Italy. He is an internationally well-known expert on the durability of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. His extensive research work and numerous publications focus on non-destructive methods to detect and quantify corrosion, the use of new electrically isolatedpost-tensioning tendons and electrochemical protection techniques.Pietro Pedeferri (1938-2008), a graduate in chemical engineering and former professor of Electrochemistry at the University of Bari, was professor of Corrosion and Protection of Materials at Politecnico di Milano since 1983 until his death in 2008. His work was mainly concernedwith electrochemistry and corrosion of metals, including corrosion of steel in concrete. He published more than 300 papers and a dozen books in the field of corrosion and materials technology.Elena Redaelli is assistant professor in the field of materials science and technology at Politecnico di Milano where she teaches Construction Materials to Building Engineering students. Her main scientific interests are related with the corrosion of steel in concrete, its characterization and methods to prevent and control it. In particular, her research activity has focused on electrochemical techniques in concrete and methods for durability design of concrete structures.Rob Polder is a senior materials scientist at the TNO, the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, and professor of Materials and Durability at Delft University of Technology in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. The main focus of his work is on corrosionof steel in concrete, from

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