This study addresses the operational degradation of reinforced concrete structures of buildings and facilities where radioactive materials and waste are handled, if degradation is caused by the joint effect of ionizing radiation from materials (subst...
Reinforced concrete structures can be strongly damaged by chloride corrosion of reinforcement. Rust accumulated around rebars involves a volumetric expansion, causing cracking of the surrounding concrete. To simulate the corrosion progress, the initi...
The corrosion of steel bars in concrete is a dangerous and extremely costly problem that causes losses of serviceability and structural capacity in buildings and bridges. Once the depassivation occurs, because of concrete carbonation or chloride atta...
In this work, the non-uniform corrosion characteristics of steel bars in stressed reinforced concrete beams after accelerated depassivation and seven-year outdoor natural corrosion is analyzed using fractal theory. 3D laser scanning and 3D reconstruc...
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) are physically complementary non-destructive evaluation methods for reinforced concrete, yet their integrated diagnostic use has been limited by the absence of controlled, gro...