Numerical Study of Corrosion Crack Opening

Palle Thoft-Christensen, Henrik Lund Frandsen, Staffan Svensson

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    Abstract

    To determine the reliability of reinforced concrete structures based on visual inspection of corroding cracks on the surfaces of structures is of great interest. In the present study, models for the deterioration of reinforced concrete structures are presented with special emphasis on a model for the corrosion crack opening. Experiments and theoretical analysis by a numerical method, FEM, support that the relation between the reduction of the reinforcement bar diameter due to corrosion and the corresponding increase in crack width for a given time interval, measured on the surface of a concrete specimen is proportional. More recently, the constant of proportionality, the so-called crack-corrosion index, has been studied further with respect to its dependence on the diameter of the reinforcement and the concrete cover. In the present paper the above-mentioned work is presented and extended with more realistic 3D-models of the cracked concrete beam. The crack-corrosion index is evaluated for a variation of different parameters, i.e. bar diameter, concrete cover, crack length and type of corrosion product. This paper is an extended version of a paper by Thoft-Christensen et al. (2005) presented at the IFIP WG 7.5 Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, May 2005.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalStructure & Infrastructure Engineering
    Volume4
    Issue number5
    Pages (from-to)381-391
    Number of pages11
    ISSN1573-2479
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008

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