Keith Fortune

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report recent advances in the knowledge base relevant to the durability of steel reinforced concrete in chloride environments, including: the role of mineral admixtures in concrete durability, the methods of measuring the chloride ingress into concrete, the challenges in assessing concrete durability from its chloride diffusivity, and the service life modeling of reinforced concrete.

TL;DR: In this article, artificial neural networks (ANNs) were used to establish predictive models and quantify such cause-and-effect relationships, and the established ANN models were then used for numerical investigations on the parameters affecting the deicer properties and for quality assurance of deicers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the performance of deicers under storage or after pavement application and found no significant degradation of corrosion inhibitors or loss of chlorides during the months of field storage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the performance of corrosion-inhibited anti-icing products after pavement application during winter storms and found that more than 62% of the inhibitor in the CCB anti-icer and more than 20% of chlorides (especially for FreezGard and NaCl+GLT) could remain on the pavement four days after the application of liquid anti-icers to treat black ice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address questions underlying the replacement of arc-sprayed zinc anodes on cathodically protected steel reinforced concrete bridges and develop a protocol to prepare the concrete surface for the new anode, through a combination of literature review, practitioner surveys, laboratory studies, and field investigation.