Corrosion behaviour of prestressed steel-reinforced structures

F. J. Carrión-Viramontes, J. Hernández-Rivera, M. Martínez-Madrid, A. Herrera, A. Lozano-Guzmán, V. M. Castaño

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Abstract

A relationship between the corrosion damage and the loss of prestressing load on concrete prestressed metallic structures is proposed after experimental data. Mathematically, the first natural frequency change is related to the reduction on the prestressing load, and as a result, to the corrosion effect. In general, it has been found that the reduction on the prestressing load due to corrosion has a cracking type behaviour with a small variation rate at the beginning and a larger one at the end of the corrosive process. It can be found a similar tendency assuming that the load change is inversely proportional to the crack depth as per fracture mechanics model (stress corrosion cracking).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)119-129
Number of pages11
JournalCorrosion Reviews
Volume17
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999
Externally publishedYes

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