Monitoring corrosion rate for Ordinary Portland Concrete (OPC) and High-Performance Concrete (HPC) specimens subjected to chloride attack

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 863-874

  Ismail, Mohamed E ^a   Soleymani, Hamid R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Electrochemical; High performance concrete; Reinforced concrete; Tafel method

Indexed keywords

CORROSION RESISTANCE; DRYING; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEEL; WETTING;

REINFORCING STEEL RODS;

CONCRETES;

CONCRETE; CORROSION;

EID: 0037005563     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l02-091     Document Type: Article

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