Critical chloride content for reinforced concrete and its relationship to concrete resistivity
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The critical chloride content for initiation of reinforcement corrosion is an essential element in service life design and modelling of concrete structures.The critical content is laden with questions regarding its definition, experimental assessment and practical aspects. It should be addressed by a statistical approach. The paper discusses such issues, presents experimental evidence and considers its relationship to the electrical resistivity of concrete. A low concrete resistivity can be theoretically argued to relate to a low critical chloride content. Only part of the experimental data support this, however. The resolution of available data does not allow distinction with regard to the critical content between cement types. © 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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TNO Identifier
332111
Source
Materials and Corrosion(8), pp. 623-630.
Pages
623-630
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