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Prediction of corrosion rate in reinforced concrete structures – a critical review and preliminary results
Author(s) -
Otieno M.,
Beushausen H.,
Alexander M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
materials and corrosion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.487
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1521-4176
pISSN - 0947-5117
DOI - 10.1002/maco.201106282
Subject(s) - corrosion , chloride , reinforced concrete , materials science , metallurgy , composite material
This paper presents a critical review of some of the available corrosion rate prediction models focusing mainly on chloride‐induced corrosion. In addition to the proposals made for the improvement of these models, preliminary results of an ongoing study aimed at developing a chloride‐induced corrosion rate prediction model using both natural and accelerated corrosion results are presented. Even though a reasonable correlation between natural and accelerated i corr is presented here, more data are still required to ascertain the relationship.