Development of an embeddable sensor to monitor the corrosion process of new and existing reinforced concrete structures

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2746-2751

  Duffó, Gustavo S ^a,b,c   Farina, Silvia B ^b,c  

^a CENTRO ATÓMICO CONSTITUYENTES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Concrete structures; Monitoring; Reinforcement corrosion; Sensors

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE IONS; CONCRETE STRUCTURES; CORROSION CURRENT DENSITIES; CORROSION PROCESS; COST-EFFECTIVE SENSORS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EMBEDDABLE SENSOR; EXISTING REINFORCED CONCRETE; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; OPEN CIRCUIT POTENTIAL; REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES; REINFORCEMENT CORROSION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MONITORING; OXYGEN; REINFORCED CONCRETE; REINFORCEMENT;

SENSORS;

EID: 67349261723     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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