TY - GEN A1 - Hlavacek, Petr T1 - Corrosion of steel reinforcement in geopolymer mortars - Carbonation resistance, chloride migration, and preliminary corrosion potential data N2 - Geopolymers present a group of novel building materials exhibiting improved chemical resistance, fire resistance and lower CO2 emissions over traditional OPC-based materials. Corrosion of steel rebars in concrete presents one of the main deterioration mechanisms limiting service life of the reinforced structures. The corrosion is accompanied by an expansion of the corrosion products causing high pressures, concrete cracking and finally spalling of a cover layer. Critical chloride concentration, loss of alkalinity and modeling of the steel corrosion are in researchers' spotlight for decades, however steel corrosion in geopolymer materials is insufficiently described and understood yet. An optimized geopolymer mixture based on German hard coal fly ash activated with sodium hydroxide and sodium silicate solutions was selected for steel reinforcement-corrosion experiments. The formation of passive layer on the steel rebars is observed after approx. two weeks of hardening at laboratory temperature. However, alternative heat-treatment at 80°C for several hours leads to immediate formation of the passive layer as well as to a faster strength gain (80 MPa after 24h at 80°C). Chloride diffusion coefficient, Na+ leaching as well as carbonation rate is identified on unreinforced geopolymer mortar samples. The data are used for simulations and design of the steel rebars-corrosion experiments. The effect of chloride ingress, Na+ leaching and carbonation of the geopolymer mortar on the steel-reinforcement corrosion is studied. T2 - II European Geopolymer Network CY - Madrid, Spain DA - 14.07.2017 KW - Geopolymer KW - Steel corrosion KW - Chloride transport coefficient PY - 2017 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41058 AN - OPUS4-41058 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany