Galvanostatic pulse technique with the current confinement guard ring: The laboratory and finite element analysis

Corrosion Science

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2739-2746

  Poursaee, A ^a   Hansson, C M ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

A. Concrete; A. Steel reinforced concrete; B. Galvanostatic; B. Modelling studies; B. Polarisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949148949     PISSN: 0010938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2008.07.017     Document Type: Letter

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