Concrete environment

Very finely divided wax emulsions are effective concrete dampproofing agents and are formulated so that the emulsion breaks down after contact with the alkaline concrete environment and forms a hydrophobic layer. 

Very finely divided wax emulsions are effective concrete dampproofing agents and are formulated so that the emulsion breaks down after contact with the alkaline concrete environment and forms a hydrophobic layer. Waxes of melting point 57-60°C are used with an emulsifying agent based on sorbitan monostearate or ethoxylated sorbitan monostearate [2], The properties of a commercial product are given in Table 4.4 [5],... 

The alkaline nature of the environment surrounding the reinforcement steel rods embedded in the concrete matrix passivates the steel however, corrosion attack takes place when chloride ions penetrate into them from the seawater and other surroundings [64, 65]. The other ions like sulfate and carbonate ions also enhance the possibility of corrosion of the steel rods. Cathodic protection of such steel rods can be classified into two categories the surrounding of the steel rod is the only concrete environment and the other is any medium encountered by the structure. 

Altering the concrete environment to make it less corrosive. One way would be to extract the chlorides from concrete such as electrochemical chloride removal. 

Takewaka, K. and M. Khin (1996). Deterioration of stress-rupture of FRP rods in alkaline soiution simulating as concrete environment. Second International Conference on Advanced Composite Materials in Bridges and Structures, Montreai, Canada, pp. 649-664. 

Technical Alert Criteria for the Cathodic Protection of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Elements. Pre.sents results and recommendations based on the investigation of control criteria used to nrea.sure corrosion rates of steel in a concrete environment. 14 pages. SHRP-S-359, 5... 

The rods are protected from the external environments in that they are completely surrounded in adhesive paste. This assumes that concrete structures which have alkaline or other salts in the cements will not attack the paste consequently, the rods will not be affected by the alkaline-initiated corrosion in a concrete environment. 

Non-corrosive - it will not corrode when exposed to a wide variety of corrosive elements including chloride ions and it is not susceptible to carbonation-initiated corrosion in a concrete environment. 

The soil moisture (electrol5 te) can be described as acidic (pH < 7), neutral (pH = 7), or alkaline (pH > 7), based on the relative ratio of hydrogen ions (ff) to hydroxyl ions (OH ). When H ions predominate over OH" ions, the soil is acidic and vice versa. In a neutral solution both ions are in balance. (The value of pH indicates only the hydrogen ion concentration.) Fresh water and seawater typically have a near neutral pH. The concrete environment has a strongly alkaline pH =13. The corrosion effect of soil moisture acidity or alkalinity depends very much on the specific metal of interest. 

The concrete environment is often simulated by a concentrated calcium hydroxide solution [7,8]. Addition of additional sodium or potassium hydroxide, or both, to increase the pH has no effect on changing the corrosion mechanisms, but increases the chloride threshold level [9]. Typically the effects of chlorides and corrosion inhibitors on the susceptibihty of steel to pitting can be determined in these environments [7-9]. 

As mentioned in the subsection on Simulated Concrete Environments, saturated calcium hydroxide solutions with various combinations of sodium or potassium hydroxide are often used to simulate concrete. Chloride salts are added to these solutions to represent the effects of chloride ingress into the concrete to the rebar level. Rebars or other metal specimens can be examined for corrosion when added to these solutions. 

Carbonization of concrete caused by the penetration of carbon dioxide into concrete leads initially to the formation of calcium carbonate as a result of reaction with calcium hydroxide, and then to calcium hydrogen carbonate, which is washed out by rain water from concrete capillaries. A decrease of the pH of the concrete environment to 8-8.5 is the result and it causes destruction... 

Phanasgaonkar, A., Cherry B. and Forsyth, M. (1997) Corrosion Inhibition Properties of Organic Amines in a Simulated Concrete Environment, Proc. Int. Conference Understanding Corrosion Mechanisms of Metals in Concrete-A Key to Improving Infrastructure Durability, 27-31.7.1997, Cambridge, USA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Section 6. 

Modifying the internal concrete environment, for example, realkalization of concrete, chloride extraction, addition of corrosion inhibitors, and so on. 

Creating a barrier between the rebar steel and the internal concrete environment... 

Reinforcement experiences a relatively uniform internal concrete environment (at least initially)... 

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Steel embedded in concrete is normally passivated due to the highly alkaline (high pH) concrete environment. However, if the potential of the steel is more negative than in any naturally occurring condition, regardless of pH, no steel corrosion occurs (immunity). 

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