Stainless steel reinforcing bars - Reason for their high pitting corrosion resistance

Materials and Corrosion

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 111-119

  Elsener, B ^a,b   Addari, D ^a   Coray, S ^b   Rossi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

alkaline solutions; concrete; manganese; passive film; pitting corrosion; reinforcement; stainless steels; XPS surface analysis

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE SOLUTIONS; BENEFICIAL EFFECTS; BLACK STEEL; CARBONATED CONCRETES; CHLORIDE CONCENTRATIONS; CHLORIDE INDUCED CORROSION; CONCRETE STRUCTURES; CORROSION BEHAVIOR; DUPLEX STEELS; EXCELLENT CORROSION RESISTANCES; HIGH COSTS; HYDRATED FILMS; LONG SERVICE LIFE; NACL SOLUTION; NICKEL-FREE; NICKEL-FREE STAINLESS STEEL; PASSIVE FILMS; PITTING CORROSION; PITTING CORROSION RESISTANCE; PITTING POTENTIAL; PITTING RESISTANCE; PROTECTIVE PROPERTIES; REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES; SHORT-TERM SOLUTIONS; STAINLESS STEEL REINFORCING BARS; SURFACE FILMS; XPS;

BARS (METAL); BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; CORROSION RESISTANCE; CORROSION RESISTANT ALLOYS; MANGANESE; METAL ANALYSIS; NICKEL; PITTING; REINFORCED CONCRETE; REINFORCEMENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLUTION MINING; SURFACE ANALYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 79251496666     PISSN: 09475117     EISSN: 15214176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/maco.201005826     Document Type: Article

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