Numerical modeling of time to corrosion induced cover cracking in reinforced concrete using soft-computing based methods

Materials and Structures/Materiaux et Constructions

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1739-1756

  Güneyisi, Esra Mete ^a   Mermerdaş, Kasım ^b   Güneyisi, Erhan ^a   Gesoğlu, Mehmet ^a  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HASAN KALYONCU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Experimental database; Modeling; Reinforced concrete; Steel reinforcement corrosion; Time to cover cracking

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE TESTING; CONCRETES; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; CRACKS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SOFT COMPUTING; STATISTICAL TESTS; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

ACCELERATED CORROSION TESTS; CORROSION-INDUCED CRACKINGS; EXPERIMENTAL DATABASE; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; PROPERTIES OF CONCRETES; SOFTCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES; STEEL REINFORCEMENTS; TIME TO COVER CRACKING;

CORROSION;

EID: 84929061230     PISSN: 13595997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1617/s11527-014-0269-8     Document Type: Article

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