Title
Durability of reinforcing stainless steel ribbed bars in carbonated mortars
Date Issued
01 January 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Publisher(s)
Austrian Society for Metallurgy and Materials (ASMET)
Abstract
Three different austenitic stainless steels were studied: UNS S30403, UNS S31600 and low-Ni UNS S20430. Moreover, the duplex stainless steel UNS S32205 was also included in the study. The four stainless steels were processed as ribbed bars through cold working. Mortar samples were prepared embedding the stainless steel bar in mortar and carbonating them after curing. Corrosion tests were carried out in 3 different exposure conditions: at high relative humidity (HRH9); partially immersed in 3.5% NaCl (PI9); and with CaCl2 added during mortar mixing and exposed to high relative humidity (HRH9Cl). Corrosion potential (Ecorr) measurements and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) were used to monitor the behaviour during 8 years of exposure. Then, anodic polarization tests were carried out to obtain additional information about the pitting corrosion resistance of the bars in aged, carbonated mortars. Stainless steels behave excellently in carbonated conditions without chlorides, but some grades can suffer localized corrosion if they are submitted to high anodic polarizations. The PI9 is the most aggressive testing condition and it causes low-intensity corrosion in S20430 austenitic stainless steel during the exposure. The S32205 duplex stainless steel shows excellent behaviour in all the conditions considered in the study.
Start page
256
End page
264
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería estructural y municipal
Ingeniería de materiales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85050122558
Resource of which it is part
8th European Stainless Steel and Duplex Stainless Steel Conference 2015
Conference
8th European Stainless Steel Conference Science and Market and Duplex Stainless Steel Conference and Exhibition, ESSC 2015
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