Hydrogen-assisted stress-corrosion of prestressing wires in a motorway viaduct

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-27

  Vehovar, L ^a,c   Kuhar, V ^a,b   Vehovar, A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF METALS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b Civil Enginering Institute   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORROSION; CRACK INITIATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HIGHWAY BRIDGES; PRESTRESSED MATERIALS; REINFORCED CONCRETE;

BRIDGE FAILURES; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

CORROSION FATIGUE;

HYDROGEN CORROSION; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING; VIADUCT;

EID: 0032029687     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-6307(97)00034-4     Document Type: Article

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