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The increasing number of premature deteriorations of concrete structures due to reinforcement corrosion is promoting the development of more accurate calculation methods of their service lives. Either a certain degree of rebar deterioration controls the service life or, in the case of already deteriorating structures, the corrosion rate is the rate-determining parameter of the damage progress. In the present paper, the factors influencing the steel corrosion rate are described, and quantitative ranges are given based on values obtained by means of the Polarization Resistance method, measured in laboratory specimens, or on-site in real structures.
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Andrade, C., Alonso, C. (1996). Durability Design Based on Models for Corrosion Rates. In: Jennings, H., Kropp, J., Scrivener, K. (eds) The Modelling of Microstructure and its Potential for Studying Transport Properties and Durability. NATO ASI Series, vol 304. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8646-7_26
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