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Corrosion and Materials Degradation, Volume 3, Issue 2

June 2022 - 8 articles

Cover Story: Due to steel reinforcement corrosion, when ultrasonic waves travel through a highly defective medium, such as micro-cracked concrete, strong nonlinear elastic features are observed; the values of the nonlinearity parameters exceed the thresholds corresponding to undamaged states. This reveals the possibility of using nonlinear ultrasonic techniques to detect cracking early on in the process. Active net mass transport processes throughout the corrosion tests might explain the abrupt shifting of the nonlinear parameter values (typically increasing and then post-peak decreasing, even reaching values typical of the undamaged state) due to wick action. They can also partially explain the high variability obtained for the nonlinear parameter values in damaged (cracked) states. View this paper
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Articles (8)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,320 Views
22 Pages

Hydrogen plays various roles in metals or at metal–environment interfaces. Well known effects on metals are hydrogen embrittlement, hydrogen enhanced local plasticity, hydrogen enhanced strain-induced vacancy, hydrogen accelerated oxidation, hy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,942 Views
11 Pages

Classic Evans’s Drop Corrosion Experiment Investigated in Terms of a Tertiary Current and Potential Distribution

  • Abraham Sainz-Rosales,
  • Xóchitl Ocampo-Lazcarro,
  • Azalia Hernández-Pérez,
  • Ana Gabriela González-Gutiérrez,
  • Erika Roxana Larios-Durán,
  • Carlos Ponce de León,
  • Frank C. Walsh,
  • Maximiliano Bárcena-Soto and
  • Norberto Casillas

Background: Evans’s drop is a classic corrosion experiment that is nearly 100 years old, and it is analogous to other corrosion systems promoted by O2 gradients. The availability of more robust finite element software packages opens the possibi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,057 Views
12 Pages

The majority of works in the field of chloride-indued corrosion of steel in concrete are focused on the cracks formed by the corrosion products. However, the number of studies on the influence of cracks (pre-cracked concrete) on corrosion is limited....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,171 Views
23 Pages

Early Detection of Corrosion-Induced Concrete Micro-cracking by Using Nonlinear Ultrasonic Techniques: Possible Influence of Mass Transport Processes

  • Miguel-Ángel Climent,
  • Marina Miró,
  • Jesús-Nuño Eiras,
  • Pedro Poveda,
  • Guillem de Vera,
  • Enrique-Gonzalo Segovia and
  • Jaime Ramis

This work presents results allowing an unequivocal correlation of the observations of strong nonlinear elastic features of ultrasonic waves (values of the nonlinearity parameters exceeding the thresholds corresponding to undamaged states), with the c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
15,421 Views
14 Pages

Even though it is a noble metal, silver will corrode in ambient atmospheres, predominantly by reacting with sulfur-containing gases such as hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and carbonyl sulfide (OCS) to form the silver sulfide (Ag2S) acanthite. Other aspects o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,227 Views
11 Pages

Among the leading consequences of corrosion in reinforced concrete structures (RCS) the cross section reduction in steel bars should be mentioned, coupled to a decay of their mechanical material properties. This paper recalls the main literature find...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,608 Views
18 Pages

Insights on the Corrosion Resistance of Reinforced Recycled Aggregate Concrete

  • Yury A. Villagrán-Zaccardi,
  • Carlos M. Pico-Cortés,
  • Juan M. Etcheverry,
  • Lautaro R. Santillán and
  • María E. Sosa

Recycled aggregate produced from crushed waste concrete is suitable for use in structural concrete. It reduces the demand for non-renewable resources and also for energy in general. However, RA is more porous than most natural aggregates. The porosit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,640 Views
14 Pages

Low-alloy reactor pressure vessel steels have a rather low susceptibility to stress corrosion cracking (SCC) in a boiling water reactor (BWR) environment if the high-temperature water contains no anionic impurities. Recent investigations revealed tha...

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Corros. Mater. Degrad. - ISSN 2624-5558