predicting time for corrosion initiation in reinforced concrete
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Service Life Prediction of Reinforced Concrete exposed to Chloride
Environment based on Corrosion Initiation
Ankur Bansal 09010408
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Points to be Discussed• Cause of Reinforcement Corrosion• Phases involved in corrosion of reinforcement.• Factors affecting the diffusion of chloride into concrete.• Models to determine the time for corrosion initiation• Experimental Work done to determine the critical
chloride content.• Conclusion and Future Work
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Cause of Reinforcement Corrosion• The high alkalinity of the concrete pore
solution provides a protection of steel bars in concrete against corrosion
• Corrosive ions and molecules such as chloride ions and carbon dioxide reach the surface steel and break the passivation film and the corrosion starts.
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• Corrosion Initiation• Corrosion Propagation
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Parameters involved in chloride diffusion
Diffusion Equation:
• D = Diffusion coefficient.• = Surface Chloride content.
• Ccr = Critical Chloride content.
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Factors affecting Chloride Transport
• Concrete Mix Type of cement used. Water binder ratio. Aggregate Size.
• Curing Conditions • Exposure Conditions
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Models to determine corrosion initiation
period
Deterministic• An Exact Time period is determined
Probabilistic• A range of Values is determined with a specific
probability distribution.
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Deterministic Approach
Time taken for chloride content at near reinforcement to reach the critical chloride content value:
Ccr
D is given as
D for the above equation=
And m is the age factor, which is given by
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Probabilistic Approach• Experiments are performed
many times and a distribution of the values are found.
• Random numbers are generated according the distribution achieved(2 lakhs in our case).
• These values are put into the diffusion equation.
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Probabilistic Approach• Then at a given time period, no. of
times the chloride content at reinforcement surface exceeds the critical chloride content is given by n and total number of experiments are N.
• Thus, Probability of failure is given by Pf = n/N
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Simulation Results
Variables Units Mean Standard
Deviation
Distribution
Function
D 3.77 0.91 Normal
Cs% of binder 2.83 0.72 GEV (General
Extreme
Value)
Ccrit% of binder 0.69 0.30 Gumbel
Distributions of different parameters for a specific project were found by (Ha-Won, et al., 2009)
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Generated Random Numbers
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5x 10
4
Surface Chloride Content
No.
of
sam
ple
s
General Extreme value distribution for values of Surface Chloride Content.
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Generated Random Numbers
-0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 40
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5x 10
4
Critical Chloride Content
Num
ber
of
Sam
ple
s
Gumbel Distribution for values of critical chloride content.
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Generated Random Numbers
-1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
x 10-12
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
Diffusion Coefficient
Num
ber
of
Sam
ple
s
Generated values of Diffusion Coefficient with normal distribution.
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Probability of corrosion initiation v/s
time
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20 40 60 80 100 120 140 1600
0.01
0.02
0.03
0.04
0.05
0.06
0.07
0.08
0.09
X: 130Y: 0.05114
Time Period
Pro
babili
ty o
f fa
ilure
After 130 years, 5 % of the samples will fail.
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Experimental Work• Concrete mixes of different w/c ratio and different
cement type are planned to be prepared.• 3 Cubes and 3 beams of different cover depths
i.e. 25mm, 35mm and 44mm were casted.• 28 days Compressive Strength of the cubes was
determined• Beams were Kept in a 9 % NaCl Solution with a
potential difference of 12.0 Volts between reinforcement bar and surrounding solution.
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Test Results• Compressive Strength For concrete Mix with w/c 0.5 using OPC
Cement, compressive strength was found to be 26.07 MPa.
For concrete Mix with w/c 0.55 using OPC Cement, compressive strength was found to be 23.6 MPa.
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Test Results• Accelerated Corrosion Test(for OPC and w/c 0.5 )
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 800
0.02
0.04
0.06
0.08
0.1
0.12
0.14
0.16
25mm35mm44mm
Exposure Time (hours)
Curr
ent(
A)
Plot of Current v/s Exposure Time
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Test Results• Accelerated Corrosion Test (w/c = 0.55, OPC)
0.00136566666666667 0.001475 0.0013875 0.001318666666666670
0.01
0.02
0.03
0.04
0.05
0.06
0.07
0.08
0.09
0.1
35 mm25 mm
Time (hours)
Curr
ent(
A)
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Conclusion and
Future Work