Concrete in the marine environment civil engineering community. Department of transportation, federal highway administration. Chloride initiated reinforcement corrosion is the main durability problem for concrete structures in a marine environment. Founded in 1904 and headquartered in farmington hills, michigan, usa, the american concrete institute is a leading authority and resource worldwide for the development, dissemination, and adoption of its consensusbased standards, technical resources, educational programs, and proven expertise for individuals and organizations involved in concrete design. Concrete in marine environments concrete construction. Concrete in the marine environment civil engineering.
Concrete, marine environment, chloride, blast furnace slag cement, reinforcement corrosion, service life, probabilistic model 1 introduction durability of concrete structures in marine environment has been an issue for many decades, due to the perception of sea water as aggressive to concrete and reinforcement and the long. Three different exposure zones are considered for the durability of concrete in a marine environment as illustrated in. The natural permeability of concrete to water and salt ions from the environment leads to chlorine ions diffusing through the concrete and into contact with the underlying steel reinforcementaccelerating oxidation and corrosion of the rebar. Pdf influence of cracks on the service life of concrete. This paper presents the results of an experimental study where fifty four 1. Repaired samples were cured in water curing tank and then held in the marine environment, or immersed in crude oil up to 180 days. Bola research report uhmce0001 june 2000 prepared in cooperation with the state of hawaii department of transportation, highways division and u.
If the chlorides reach the reinforcement steel, it will depassivate and start to corrode in presence of air and water. Predicting of service life of reinforced concrete structures in marine environment and as 3600, concrete institute of australia 19th biennial conference proceedings, sydney, may 1999, pp 17. In particular, the vulnerability of steel reinforcement to corrosion in the submerged region has not been wellestablished. Many physical and chemical phenomena are usually interdependent and mutually reinforcing in the deterioration of marine exposed concrete. Field evaluation of corrosion in reinforced craig m. The durability of concrete structures exposed to marine environment depends mainly on the ability of concrete to resist to chloride ingress. The concrete structures built in marine conditions are always exposed to seawater either directly or indirectly. Chloride penetration into concrete in marine environment. Selection of the mix constituents for marine concretes is crucial in obtaining needed durability.
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