Corrosion-induced cover cracking: New test data and predictive models

ACI Structural Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-79

  Mullard, John A ^a   Stewart, Mark G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Corrosion; Cracking; Deterioration; Reinforced concrete structures

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED CORROSION; CHLORIDE ENVIRONMENT; CONCRETE COVER; CORRECTION FACTORS; COVER CRACKING; CRACK PROPAGATION MODEL; CRACKING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM; IMPROVED MODELS; MODEL ACCURACY; MODEL PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE MODELS; RC SLAB; RC STRUCTURE; REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES; REINFORCING BAR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEST DATA;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; DETERIORATION; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

CORROSION RATE;

EID: 79551471360     PISSN: 08893241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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