Corrosion Crack Morphology and Creep Analysis of Members Based on Meso-Scale Corrosion Penetration

In this paper, to study the development of load-carrying capacity and long-term creep performance of reinforced concrete beams under different corrosion patterns, the rate-dependent model of concrete is used as the basis to consider the creep development process from the meso-scale level. The porosi...

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Published in:Materials 2022-10, Vol.15 (20), p.7338
Main Authors: Zeng, Bin, Yang, Yiping, Gong, Fuyuan, Maekawa, Koichi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bearing capacity
Bearing strength
Concrete
Corrosion
Corrosion products
Corrosion rate
Cracks
Creep analysis
Damage
Deformation
Load carrying capacity
Mechanical properties
Mesoscale phenomena
Penetration
Plastic deformation
Porosity
Reinforced concrete
Reinforcement
Steel
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Summary:In this paper, to study the development of load-carrying capacity and long-term creep performance of reinforced concrete beams under different corrosion patterns, the rate-dependent model of concrete is used as the basis to consider the creep development process from the meso-scale level. The porosity mechanics method is used to simulate the generation and penetration process of corrosion products. Three corrosion conditions are set: bottom longitudinal reinforcement corrosion, top longitudinal reinforcement corrosion and all reinforcement corrosion. The corrosion rate is used as the variable in each corrosion condition. The results show that: (1) the greater the corrosion rate in all conditions, the lower the bearing capacity. In addition, the corrosion of top longitudinal reinforcement causes the damage form of the beam to change to brittle damage; (2) the creep coefficient decreases with the increase in corrosion rate in all working conditions, but the main factor for this phenomenon is the obvious increase in initial deformation. Consequently, it is not suitable to follow the conventional creep concept (deformation development/initial deformation) for the development of plastic deformation of damaged members. It is more reasonable to use the global deflection to describe the long-term deformation of corrosion-damaged members.
ISSN:1996-1944
1996-1944
DOI:10.3390/ma15207338