The author details the reactions of various concretes on steel reinforcement. Although portland cements, slag cements and high alumina cements are all hydraulic binders, each possess special properties which are examined. The discussion of causes and methods of preventing the corrosion of steel reinforcement covers such aspects as galvanised steel reinforcement, effects of concrete composition, corrosion of steel reinforcments in concrete and prestressed reinforcement. It is concluded that the most significant influences on the corrosion of prestressing wire in concrete are: the presence of chloride; the presence of nitrates; the composition of the concrete; the degree of carbonation of the concrete; concrete compaction and, chlorides and sulphates should be used as far as possible when steel is embedded. (TRRL)

Corrosion of steel by concrete

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This paper studies the reliability problem for systems subject to two types of dependent competing failure processes, that is, soft failure and hard failure processes. A soft failure happens when t...

Lina Bian

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Reliability analysis for multi-component systems with interdependent competing failure processes

Two shock models for single-component systems subject to mutually dependent failure processes

Reliability analysis for systems subject to mutually dependent degradation and shock processes