TY - JOUR A1 - Boschmann Käthler, C. A1 - Ebell, Gino A1 - Keßler, S. A1 - Schiegg, Y, A1 - Dauberschmidt, C. A1 - Angst, U. M. T1 - A comparison of methods to assess the resistance of reinforcing steel against chloride‐induced corrosion in concrete - Particular consideration of 12% chromium steel N2 - The critical chloride content C(crit) is an indicator for the corrosion resistance of reinforcing steels in concrete. In this article, several experimental methods for determining the critical chloride content C(crit) of mild and an alloyed (12% Cr) steel in cementitious materials are compared. The methods used include accelerated polarization tests and tests using more natural (unpolarized) conditions in which chloride ingress occurs by diffusion and capillary uptake. The advantages and disadvantages of the methods are discussed, in particular, with the objective of reaching a compromise between applicability to practice and feasibility in laboratory testing. KW - Chloride‐induced corrosion KW - Critical chloride content KW - Reinforced concrete KW - Testing methods PY - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-529751 SN - 0947-5117 N1 - This article has been published in 2021 as an "Early View" version with the DOI 10.1002/maco.202112609. VL - 73 IS - 3 SP - 306 EP - 325 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-52975 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Boschmann Käthler, C. A1 - Angst, U. A1 - Ebell, Gino A1 - Elsener, B. T1 - Chloride-induced reinforcement corrosion in cracked concrete: the influence of time of wetness on corrosion propagation N2 - Literature data on the influence of concrete cracks on corrosion propagation of reinforcing steel are contradictory. This might be due to very different exposure and test conditions but also to a lack of time-resolved data in cyclic wetting–drying exposure. Here, the influence of the environmental conditions on the corrosion rates in cracked concrete is studied experimentally. The results show that the corrosion rate in cracked concrete depends on the duration of wetting and drying phases and the relative humidity (RH) during the drying phase. The lower the ambient RH in the drying phase, the faster the cracks dry, which depresses the corrosion rate in the periods between the wetting events. A model is proposed to estimate corrosion rates in cracked concrete cyclic wetting/drying exposure. KW - Korrosion KW - Corrosion KW - Concrete PY - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/1478422X.2020.1789371 SP - 1 EP - 11 PB - Taylor Francis Online CY - London AN - OPUS4-50986 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -