Title
Corrugated stainless steels embedded in carbonated mortars with and without chlorides: 9-Year corrosion results
Date Issued
22 July 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Bautista A.
Alvarez S.
Velasco F.
Guzman S.
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
The corrosion behavior of 5 corrugated stainless steel bars was evaluated in carbonated mortars: UNS S20430, S30400, S31603, S31635 and S32205. The tests were carried out under 3 different exposure conditions: at high relative humidity (C-HRH); partially immersed in 3.5% NaCl (C-PI); and with CaCl<inf>2</inf> added during mortar mixing and exposed to high relative humidity (C-HRHCl). Corrosion potential (E<inf>corr</inf>) measurements and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) were used to monitor the behavior during the first 8 years of exposure. Then, anodic polarization tests were carried out and the exposure was extended for another additional year. Stainless steels do not corrode in carbonated conditions without chlorides, but some grades can suffer localized corrosion if they are submitted to high anodic polarizations. Low-Ni, austenitic S20430 corrugated bars are especially prone to suffer a low-intensity corrosive attack in carbonated mortars with chlorides. Moreover, the corrosion rate of S20430 bars can easily increase under moderate anodic polarizations. Duplex S32205 is immune to corrosion in the carbonated mortar with chlorides, even in partial immersion conditions and under high anodic polarizations.
Start page
186
End page
196
Volume
95
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de la construcción Ingeniería de materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84937562068
Source
Construction and Building Materials
ISSN of the container
09500618
Sponsor(s)
The present work was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Project reference BIA2007-66491-C02. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación BIA2007-66491-C02 MICINN
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