In-situ condition monitoring of reinforced concrete structures

Abstract

Performance of concrete structures is significantly influenced and governed by its durability and resistance to environmental or exposure conditions, apart from its physical strength. It can be monitored, evaluated and predicted through modeling of physical deterioration mechanisms, performance characteristics and parameters and condition monitoring of in situ concrete structures. One such study has been conducted using Non-destructive testing equipment in the city of Bhopal and around located in India. Some selected parameters influencing durability of reinforced concrete (RC) structures such as concrete cover, carbonation depth, chloride concentration, half cell potential and compressive strength have been measured, for establishing correlation among various parameters and age of structures. Effects of concrete cover and compressive strength over the variation of chloride content with time are also investigated.

Keywords

concrete / carbonation / chloride / corrosion / monitoring / models

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Acknowledgements

Cooperation of Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, all other central and state government and private departments for permitting to perform tests on the structures and for providing various details about structures is acknowledged.

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