Study on the non-uniformity of rust layer and residual rebar caused by pitting corrosion in mortar

X Zhang, C Jiang, Y Chen, SA Memon, P Lun… - … and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Rebar corrosion and non-uniformity in remaining rebar and corrosion products are critical
factors influencing the durability of reinforced concrete structures. This study investigates pit …

Effects of coarse aggregate surface morphology on aggregate-mortar interface strength and mechanical properties of concrete

JY Jia, XL Gu - Construction and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Coarse aggregate surface textures have a significant effect on mechanical properties of
aggregate-mortar interface in normal strength concrete. The authors used a scanning …

Chloride-induced 3D non-uniform corrosion of steel in reinforced concrete considering mesoscale heterogeneities and early-age cracks

C Zeng, Z Zheng, Y Huang, H Zhang - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Considering that reinforced concrete structures typically work with cracks, this work aims to
investigate the chloride-induced non-uniform corrosion of steel by proposing a five-phase …

Calibration analysis of chloride binding capacity for cement-based materials under various exposure conditions

C Song, C Jiang, XL Gu, Q Zhang, WP Zhang - Construction and Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper evaluated chloride binding capacity for cement-based materials through
calibration analysis of Linear, Freundlich and Langmuir models with tested free and bound …

Time-dependent seismic fragility analysis of reinforced concrete columns subjected to chloride-induced corrosion

W Zhang, Y Liu, QQ Yu - Engineering Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a stochastic methodology to perform time-dependent seismic fragility
analysis for reinforced concrete (RC) columns subjected to chloride attacks. Numerical …

A multi-phase multi-species phase field model for non-uniform corrosion and chloride removal in concrete

X Fang, Z Pan, R Ma, A Chen - Journal of Building Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Electrochemical chloride removal (ECR) facilitates the retardation of rebar corrosion and the
extension of service life. In this paper, we present a multi-phase multi-species phase field …

Experimental and numerical investigation on seismic performance of corroded RC columns of low-strength concrete

W Zhang, Y Liu, F Hu, X Gu - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2023 - Springer
A huge number of reinforced concrete structures designed without aseismic consideration
exist at the risk of both reinforcement corrosion and earthquake. They were generally made …

Multiphysics and multiphase mesoscopic study on electrochemical corrosion of reinforcement caused by chloride salt

X Chen, Q Zhang - Construction and Building Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Reinforcement corrosion caused by chloride attack is one of the main reasons for the
degradation of reinforced concrete (RC) structures, especially those exposed to marine …

Physics-based stochastic aging corrosion analysis assisted by machine learning

Y Yu, B Dong, W Gao, A Sofi - Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 2022 - Elsevier
Chloride-induced corrosion in reinforced structures is complex, involving simultaneous
material aging and diverse uncertainties. To computationally interpret such a process, the …

Heterogeneous crystallization of zinc hydroxystannate on galvanized steel for enhancing the bond strength at the rebar/concrete interface

F Di Franco, A Zaffora, B Megna… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Zinc hydroxystannate (ZnSn (OH) 6) coatings were deposited on galvanized carbon
steel samples by an electroless heterogeneous crystallization process. Structural and …