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Correlation between chloride-induced corrosion initiation and time to cover cracking in RC Structures

  • Hosseini, Seyed Abbas (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Sistan and Baluchestan) ;
  • Shabakhty, Naser (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Sistan and Baluchestan) ;
  • Mahini, Seyed Saeed (Discipline of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New England)
  • Received : 2015.06.10
  • Accepted : 2015.10.16
  • Published : 2015.10.25
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Abstract

Numerical value of correlation between effective parameters in the strength of a structure is as important as its stochastic properties in determining the safety of the structure. In this article investigation is made about the variation of coefficient of correlation between effective parameters in corrosion initiation time of reinforcement and the time of concrete cover cracking in reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Presence of many parameters and also error in measurement of these parameters results in uncertainty in determination of corrosion initiation and the time to crack initiation. In this paper, assuming diffusion process as chloride ingress mechanism in RC structures and considering random properties of effective parameters in this model, correlation between input parameters and predicted time to corrosion is calculated using the Monte Carlo (MC) random sampling. Results show the linear correlation between corrosion initiation time and effective input parameters increases with increasing uncertainty in the input parameters. Diffusion coefficient, concrete cover, surface chloride concentration and threshold chloride concentration have the highest correlation coefficient respectively. Also the uncertainty in the concrete cover has the greatest impact on the coefficient of correlation of corrosion initiation time and the time of crack initiation due to the corrosion phenomenon.

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