M.P. Papadopoulos

TL;DR: The results of an experimental study for assessing the effects of gradually accumulating corrosion damage due to laboratory salt spray corrosion on the mechanical behavior of reinforcing steel bars Class BSt 500 s tempcore are presented in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the degradation of tensile properties of reinforcing steel bars grade S400 caused by accelerated laboratory salt spray is evaluated and the results indicate that the material degradation may be more severe than thought when taking mass loss as a measure of corrosion damage.

TL;DR: In this article, a large number of sections of exposed rebars were collected from buildings up to 96 years old, and weight loss measurements, tensile testing and fractographic analysis were carried out.

TL;DR: The results of an experimental study for assessing the effects of gradually accumulating corrosion damage on the tensile mechanical behavior of reinforcing steel bars of technical Class B500 c are presented and compared against the mechanical behaviour of its predecessor, technical Class S500 s steel as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the index QD has been introduced for the evaluation of the mechanical performance of BStIV grade reinforcing steel bars from four different manufacturers by exploiting the performance indices concept.