• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.223-226
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• 2009

Polymer coatings are commonly applied to metal substrates to prevent corrosion in aggressive environments such as high humidity and under salt water. Once the polymer coating has been breached, for example due to cracking or scratches, it loses its effectiveness, and corrosion can rapidly propagate across the substrate. The self-healing system we will describe prevents corrosion by healing the damage through a healing reaction triggered by the actual damage event. This self-healing coating solution can be easily applied to most substrate materials, and our dual-capsule healing system provides a general approach to be compatible with most common polymer matrices. Specifically, we expect an excellent anti-corrosion property of the self-healing coatings in damaged parts coated on galvanized metal substrates.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.511-519
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• 2017

The reliability of reinforced concrete structures is frequently compromised by the deterioration caused by reinforcement corrosion. Evaluating the effect caused by reinforcement corrosion on structural behaviour of corrosion damaged concrete structures is essential for effective and reliable infrastructure management. In lifecycle management of corrosion affected reinforced concrete structures, it is difficult to correctly assess the lifecycle performance due to the uncertainties associated with structural resistance deterioration. This paper presents a stochastic deterioration modelling approach to evaluate the performance deterioration of corroded concrete structures during their service life. The flexural strength deterioration is analytically predicted on the basis of bond strength evolution caused by reinforcement corrosion, which is examined by the experimental and field data available. An assessment criterion is defined to evaluate the flexural strength deterioration for the time-dependent reliability analysis. The results from the worked examples show that the proposed approach is capable of evaluating the structural reliability of corrosion damaged concrete structures.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.191-198
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• 2005

철근의 부식율에 따른 철근 콘크리트 보의 구조적 성능 저하를 정량적으로 고찰하기 위하여 실험 및 해석을 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 먼저 부식철근의 인장실험과 부착성능 실험을 통하여 철근의 부식율에 따른 항복강도와 탄성계수 및 부착성능을 정량적으로 산정할 수 있는 구성방정식을 구성하고, 인장주근이 부식된 RC보 실험결과와 산출된 부식모델을 반영한 비선형 해석 결과와 비교하였다. 결론적으로 본 연구에서 제시된 철근부식 모델을 이용한 비선형 해석을 통하여 인장주근이 부식된 철근 콘크리트 보의 휨 거동을 합리적으로 예측할 수 있음을 검증하였다.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.141-146
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• 2007

It is necessary to guarantee the safety, serviceability and durability of reinforced concrete structures over their service life. However, concrete structures represent a decrease in their durability due to the effects of external environments according to the passage of time, and such degradation in durability can cause structural degradation in materials. In concrete structures, some degradations in durability increase the corrosion of embedded rebars and also decrease the structural performance of materials. Thus, the structural condition assessment of RC materials damaged by corrosion of rebars becomes an important factor that judges needs to apply restoration. In order to detect the damage of reinforced concrete structures, a visual inspection, a nondestructive evaluation method(NDE) and a specific loading test have been employed. However, obscurities for visual inspection and inaccessible members raise difficulty in evaluating structure condition. For these reasons, detection of location and quantification of the damage in structures via structural response have been one of the very important topics in system identification research. The main objective of this project is to develope a methodologies for the damage identification via static responses of the members damaged by durability. Six reinforced concrete beams with variables of corrosion position and corrosion width were fabricated and the damage detections of corroded RC beams were performed by the optimization and the conjugate beam methods using static deflection. In results it is proved that the conjugate beam method could predict the damage of RC members practically.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.112-119
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• 2007

This paper presents the importance of corrosion control and protection technology with a real case study of heater tube rupture damaged by High temperature H2S-H2 corrosion in the refinery. The heater was operated at the Hydrocracking unit and the operation temperature and pressure was $340^{\circ}C$ and $18kg/cm^{3}$ respectively. Top side of the convection tube was thinned by high temperature hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen gas as a uniform corrosion and finally ruptured under operation pressure. Damaged area (Convection tube zone) was blocked by protection wall, so it was impossible to inspect with conventional nondestructive examination. Instead the elbow area which is out of the protection wall was inspected regularly to evaluate the corrosion rate of convection tube indirectly. However the operation temperature and the phase of the process stream was different between inside the chamber and outside the chamber. As a result, it caused severe corrosion to the horizontal convection tube inside the chamber comparing to the elbow outside the chamber. Finally convection tube was corroded more rapidly than the elbow and ruptured after 13 years operation. Because of the rupture, the heater was totally burned and the operation was stopped for 3 months until it has been reconstructed. To prevent this kind of corrosion problem and accident, corrosion control should be strengthened and protection technology should be improved.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.141-148
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• 2002

Repair were made for front pillar, center pillar and side-step panel for lightweight vehicles with head-on and 40% off-set collision of 15 km/h in a RCAR standard. The salt dilution was sprayed and the compression tests were performed for vehicles with and without anti-corrosional treatment after repair. After 764 hours of salt-dilt sprayed test without using anti-corrosion, the mean penetration depth fur corrosion was shown to be 58% of the thickness. The resulyed decrease in bending stiffness by 10∼20% can cause reduction of the residual life and crash-absorption capability for damaged vehicles. The corrosoin safety tests showed that the anti-corrosional treatment should be made to improve the safety characteristics for a or damaged car.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표회 논문집(I)
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• pp.254-257
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• 2006

Five bench scale specimens were used to evaluate corrosion performance of damaged epoxy-coated bars in chloride contaminated concrete. The test specimens were subjected 48 weekly cycles of ponding with sodium chloride solution and drying. Test results using linear polarization technique show that the current density of specimen with conventional steel becomes $0.715\;{\mu}A/cm^2$ indicating that the steel bars are in moderate or high corrosion condition. However, the corrosion rates of the specimens with damaged epoxy coated bars are much below $0.1\;{\mu}A/cm^2$ and the bars appears to be in passive condition. The corrosion protection performance provided by calcium nitrite is better than that of specimens with the other two inhibitors.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.100-109
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 부식에 의하여 발생하는 표면 단면손상을 고려하여 인위적인 표면 단면손상이 도입된 원형인장 부재의 인장성능 변화를 평가하였다. 인장성능 평가를 위하여 부식수준에 따른 인위적인 단면손상을 손상 폭과 높이를 변화시켜 원형강관 시험체 표면에 도입하였으며, 단면손상 수준에 따른 인장성능 변화를 평가하였다. 인장강도 실험 결과, 원형단면 강관부재의 인장강도는 강관부재의 길이 방향 손상이 아닌 부재 둘레 방향 손상의 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났으며, 부재의 파괴는 손상이 발생한 부재의 최소 단면에서 발생하는 것으로 나타났다. 표면에 불규칙한 손상이 도입된 강관 시험체의 단면조건을 명확하게 평가할 수 없으므로, 단면손상으로 인한 인장강도 변화를 정량적으로 비교하기 위하여 동일 단면 감소효과가 고려된 강관 부재에 대한 비선형 구조해석을 실시하였다. 비선형 구조해석 결과, 실제 부재 표면에 국부적 단면손상이 발생한 부재의 인장강도는 동일 단면 감소효과를 고려한 부재의 인장강도에 비하여 상대적으로 급격하게 저하하는 것으로 평가되었다. 국부부식과 같이 표면에 불규칙한 단면손상이 발생한 부재의 잔존인장성능은 인장시험과 등가손상 단면과 구조해석 결과로부터 평가된 상관계수를 이용하여 평가 및 예측될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 1997년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.257-262
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• 1997

Reinforced concrete structures built on the seashore or in seawater are damaged from saltwater which cause to accelerate corrosion of reinforcing steel in concrete. Therefore, Corrosion of steel reinforcement of concrete structures become more and more serious, and prediction of service lives of concrete structures considering steel corrosion is needed much more. this research is to investigate basic physical properties of various corrosion inhibitors and to evaluate their corrosion resistance in concrete. The object of this study is develop appropriate corrosion protection systems so as to enhance the durability of concrete.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.153-156
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• 2009

The water cooling system for VFD (Variable Frequency Drive) of a fossil fuel power plant was reported to be shut down due to a water leak at the metal connection of the heat-sink to the hoses. In order to identify the cause of the failure, the system was visually inspected, and corrosion products were analyzed with SEM equipped with EDX. The failure was observed repeatedly at the nipples of certain location, suggesting galvanic corrosion. In a U-shaped heat sink with two nipples, for inlet and outlet, only one nipple was corrosively damaged at the tip, while the other was not. Most of the corrosion products were observed at the sound nipple and in the filter, identified as $Cu(OH)_2$. Some other corrosion products, composed of mostly $Cu_2O$, were found at the corrosively attacked nipple. A fair amount of Cl was also detected on the surface of the damaged nipple. It was concluded that galvanic corrosion was occurred due to a current leakage over the whole system, and the damage was accelerated by the accumulated chlorine ions in the cooling water.