TY - CHAP A1 - Thiel, Charlotte A1 - Haynack, Alexander A1 - Geyer, Sebastian A1 - Gehlen, Christoph A1 - Braun, Alexander ED - Pereira, Eduardo B. ED - Barros, Joaquim A. O. ED - Figueiredo, Fabio P. T1 - CarboDB-Open Access Database for Concrete Carbonation T2 - Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference (RSCC 2020), Volume 1: Strategies for a Resilient Built Environment, March 9-14, 2020, Guimarães, Portugal N2 - Sustainable service life design of reinforced concrete structures relies on accurate input values. However, in the field of carbonation induced corrosion some input parameters and statistical distributions still need to be validated for worldwide climate conditions. Furthermore, many well-published literature data is not considered due to different storage conditions. At the suggestion of CEN/TC 104/SC1/WG1 the database “CarboDB” was created providing open access to extensive information on concrete carbonation under different storage conditions. The natural carbonation coefficient as well as the minimum concrete cover can be calculated for chosen situations. CarboDB provides reliable data on concrete carbonation in order to increase existing knowledge on concrete carbonation. The database is available online at http://carbodb.bgu.tum.de//. By registration further contribution is possible and appreciated. New insights can be gained by merging several sources. For natural carbonation, testing only up to 140 days underestimates the carbonation progress of concretes with limestone fillers and high amount of ground granulated blast furnace slag. KW - Carbonation KW - Service life design KW - Data management KW - Compliance testing KW - Supplementary cementicious materials Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-030-76547-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76547-7_8 SP - 79 EP - 90 PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Thiel, Charlotte A1 - Lowke, Dirk A1 - Gehlen, Christoph T1 - Effect of minimum temperature, salt and moisture content on concrete under freeze-thaw deicing salt attack T2 - ICDC 2012 : International Congress on Durability of Concrete; Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 June 2012 N2 - While in the field of reinforcement corrosion service life prediction is well-established, there is still need for a user-friendly design model in the field of freeze-thaw deicing salt attack. This attack is one of the major causes of damage to concrete structures in cold climates. The degree of moisture during the first freeze-thaw-cycles exceeds moisture saturation by capillary suction and diffusion. When a critical degree of saturation is reached before freezing damage occurs immediately. As a consequence, depending on the concrete resistance (e.g. pore structure of the concrete) and the severeness of the freeze-thaw load (e.g. minimum temperature, moisture offer and salt concentration), a certain number of freeze-thaw cycles is needed before damage occurs (initial phase). The main exposure parameters influencing the initial phase as well as the subsequent evolution of damage (deterioration phase) are the minimum temperature as well as the salt and moisture content. These factors were determined by single-sided NMR, gravimetry and mercury intrusion porosimetry respectively. Three different concrete compositions were exposed to freeze-thaw deicing salt load at different minimum temperatures. To investigate the influence of the initial moisture content concrete specimens were continuously exposed to freeze-thaw load while other specimens from the same batch were exposed to alternating freeze-thaw exposure with intermediate dry periods. It was found that the minimum temperature and intermediate dry periods had a significant influence on the initial phase as well as on the degradation phase. In addition, higher chloride content in the near-surface concrete reduced the scaling rate. The chloride content under freeze-thaw exposure with 3% NaCl solution in laboratory significantly exceeded typical contents due to capillary suction and diffusion. Increasing the minimum temperature increased the chloride content. The investigations form the basis for service life prediction of concrete towards freeze-thaw deicing salt attack. KW - freeze-thaw deicing salt attack KW - moisture movement Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.3243.9367 PB - Norwegian Concrete Association ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Thiel, Charlotte A1 - Gehlen, Christoph T1 - On the determination of carbonation in cementitious materials T2 - Challenges in Design and Management of Structures. Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Materials Systems and Structures (SMSS2019) Durability, Monitoring and Repair of Structures, 18.-22.03.2019, Rovinja, Croatio N2 - For material testing, qualification and subsequent assessment fast, simple, reliable and economic methods are needed. This paper provides an overview of different techniques to determine the depth of carbonation in cementitious materials. The easiest and cheapest way is to remove a core or a fragment of concrete cover and spray a colour indicator on the fresh fractured surface (by splitting). Here, 1 % phenolphthalein in 70 % ethanol is most widely used. However, this only indicates in which area the concrete has a pH value below 8.2-10, but not the actual carbonation front which is on average about 20 % higher. Since phenolphthalein is carcinogenic, alternative colour indicators were investigated in the laboratory. 0.5 % Curcumin showed similar colour change to phenolphthalein. In addition, 0.1 % thymolphthalein proved to be an alternative. Scattering within one measurement was lower than for phenolphthalein and the results were closer to the carbonation depths determined by different analytical methods (TGA and LA-ICP-MS). Furthermore, the transition pH-value of thymolphthalein is in the area of 9.3-10.5 which is closer to the actual carbonation front, allowing a more accurate assessment of the risk of reinforcement corrosion. KW - Carbonation KW - colour indicators KW - test methods Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-2-35158-217-6 SN - 978-2-35158-225-1 SN - 978-2-35158-218-3 SP - 373 EP - 380 PB - RILEM ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Gehlen, Christoph A1 - Mayer, Till Felix A1 - Thiel, Charlotte A1 - Fischer, Christian T1 - Lebensdauerbemessung T2 - Beton Kalender 2021 : Fertigteile, Integrale Bauwerke N2 - Christoph Gehlen, Till Felix Mayer, Charlotte Thiel und Christian Fischer beschreiben die Lebensdauerbemessung von Beton. Umfassend werden Transport‐ und Schädigungsmodelle vorgestellt, die die Mechanismen der Carbonatisierung, der Chlorideindringung, der Korrosion und der korrosionsinduzierten Rissbildung im Stahlbeton beschreiben. Die damit einhergehende Verbundthematik wird erläutert. Auch wird auf alle Mechanismen der Betonkorrosion eingegangen. Die Bemessung in Bezug auf die Dauerhaftigkeit und damit Abschätzungen für die Lebensdauer von Beton wird in drei unterschiedlich genauen Formaten geführt. Neben dem vollprobabilistischen Format wird beschrieben, wie Bemessungen auch auf Grundlage von Nachweisen basierend auf Teilsicherheitsbeiwerten durchgeführt werden können. Daran anschließend wird aufgezeigt, welche deskriptiven Bemessungsansätze sich daraus ableiten lassen. An einigen exemplarisch herausgegriffenen Objektbeispielen wird die Lebensdauerbemessung konkret vorgeführt. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/9783433610206.ch1 VL - 110 SP - 1 EP - 57 PB - Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thiel, Charlotte A1 - Kratzer, Johanna A1 - Grimm, Benedikt A1 - Kränkel, Thomas A1 - Gehlen, Christoph T1 - Effect of Internal Moisture and Outer Relative Humidity on Concrete Carbonation JF - CivilEng N2 - With steadily rising CO2 concentrations in the ambient air and fast-changing concretecompositions with reduced clinker contents, the availability of reliable and accelerated concrete car-bonation tests is of crucial importance to design durable structures. This paper focuses on the effectsof moisture under accelerated conditions and the effects of different CO2 exposure conditions. Mor-tar prisms incorporating three different cement types were cured and stored at either 50% or 65%relative humidity (RH). Afterwards, the prisms were carbonated at different ambient humidities(50, 57 and 65%), different CO2 concentrations (0.04, 1 and 3 vol.%) and complemented by a seriesof tests at increased gas pressure (2 barg). High-resolution test methods were used to explain theunderlying carbonation mechanisms. The results show that pre-conditioning for two weeks—ascurrently suggested by the European Standard—seems to be too short because the initial inner mois-ture content severely affects the carbonation rate. Relative humidity during carbonation of 57% ledto higher carbonation rates compared to 50% and 65%. In addition, climate data needs to be period-ically (preferably permanently) recorded in research experiments and in laboratory testing to ensurefair interpretation of experimental results. KW - accelerated carbonation KW - concrete KW - moisture KW - durability KW - relative humidity Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-56091 N1 - Corresponding author: Charlotte Thiel VL - 4 IS - 3 SP - 1039 EP - 1052 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Thiel, Charlotte A1 - Gehlen, Christoph T1 - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging T2 - Methods of Measuring Moisture in Building Materials and Structures N2 - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) enables to quantify the hydrogen nuclei in a sample and thus indirectly the water content. Here, hydrogen nuclei are put in oscillation (resonance) by applying a magnetic field and additional irradiation with pulsed electromagnetic waves of certain frequencies. In case all hydrogen nuclei of a sample are exclusively bound in water molecules, the resulting initial amplitude of the detected NMR signal is directly proportional to the water content. The subsequent attenuation of the oscillation is caused by relaxation mechanisms and provides information on the mobility and thus the binding states of the hydrogen nuclei. Therefore even the pore size distribution can be determined in completely water-saturated samples. If the magnetic field is graded, images can be created based on spatially resolved nuclei density distributions (MRI). Depending on the research objective, tailored choice of equipment and settings can be used to qualitatively and mostly quantitatively analyze almost every moisture-related problem. The article gives an overview of the existing NMR methods, equipment, influencing parameters, calibration techniques, applications and limitations. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74231-1_13 SP - 99 EP - 108 PB - Springer ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Thiel, Charlotte A1 - Holme, L. A1 - Erlacher, L. A1 - Gehlen, Christoph ED - Adelaide Araújo, Maria ED - Van Tittelboom, Kim T1 - Effect of real climatic conditions on freeze-thaw induced damage of concrete T2 - Durable Concrete for Infrastructure under Severe Conditions : Smart admixtures, self-responsiveness and nano-additions, Proceedings 10-11 September 2019, Ghent, Belgium N2 - The analysis of German weather data from 1996 to 2019 reveals a development in climate towards freeze-thaw exposure conditions which are detrimental to concrete durability. This trend may intensify freeze-thaw attack in future and lead to more internal and/or external damage in concrete structures. This contribution considers the inclusion of real climate conditions in laboratory simulations. Weather data were recorded and compared with depth-resolved measurements of humidity and temperature in concrete samples stored at the median site of an expressway. The strength of attack depends mainly on the amount of damaging freeze-thaw cycles (minimum temperature <-5°C in combination with moisture). In addition, the salt content of the contact water, minimum temperature and thickness of the ice layer on the concrete surface are decisive. Experiments show that internal and to a minor degree also external damage increase due to lower heating rates. The exposure of the sample itself (i.e. compass direction and removal of snow) affects the resulting damage evolution significantly. In order to save resources and enable the production of more sustainable concrete structures, current accelerated tests need to be adapted to real climatic conditions. 1. Introduction Adaptation to climate change and the associated extreme weather events represents a crucial challenge for our society. The durability of concrete, the most frequently used building material, is highly dependent on the local environment of concrete structures. In the case of a freeze-thaw de-icing salt attack, this is given by essentially the number of frost-thaw cycles (FTC) relevant to damage, the minimum temperature, the thickness of the ice layer, the moisture conditions and the concentration of salt. By investigating the interdependencies, the depth of scaling of the concrete surface per winter period can be predicted as a function of parameters accounting for the different effects of the concrete composition (air content, w/b ratio and binder type), curing time, carbonation and the duration and formation of damaging freeze-thaw cycles, [1, 2]. In order to quantify the individual effects and map them in an engineering model, a large number of laboratory tests are necessary. For this purpose, a known freeze-thaw cycle usually has to be modified. While it is already known that the cooling rate [3] and holding time at minimum temperature [4] affect scaling development, we investigated the effect of different heating rates on scaling on freeze-thaw de-icing salt attack. KW - Freeze-thaw deicing salt attack KW - heating rate KW - field exposure KW - climate weather data KW - moisture uptake Y1 - 2019 UR - https://www.sintef.no/globalassets/project/lorcenis/completed-proceedings_version20191025_lorceniswebsite.pdf SN - 978-9-463-88638-3 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Thiel, Charlotte A1 - Lowke, Dirk A1 - Gehlen, Christoph T1 - Praxisgerechte Modellierung des Schädigungsverlaufs von Betonen unter Frost-Tausalz-Angriff -Einfluss der Austrocknung T2 - Tagungsbericht / IBAUSIL, 18. Internationale Baustofftagung : 12.-15. September 2012, Weimar, Band 2 Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-00-034075-8 PB - Bauhaus-Univ. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grimm, Benedikt A1 - Münchmeyer, Sebastian A1 - Kränkel, Thomas A1 - Gehlen, Christoph A1 - Thiel, Charlotte T1 - Developing a New Rapid, Relevant, and Reliable (R3) Method for Accelerated Measurement of Carbonation Progress at Gas Overpressure T2 - International RILEM Conference on Synergising expertise towards sustainability and robustness of CBMs and concrete structures, SynerCrete’23 - Volume 1 N2 - The determination of durability-relevant material resistances of concrete is of great importance. They serve as input to engineering models to predict the durability of structures under real environmental conditions. The natural resistances have to be determined in time-consuming experiments, since the processes in nature are very slow. This is particularly important for new materials where long-term experience is not yet available. Thus, accelerated testing is required. Only that way new materials can be evaluated regarding their durability and subsequently be used in practical applications. For carbonation, a new R3 accelerated test method is presented in this contribution. An automated carbonation pressure chamber was developed. It consists of a pressure vessel, automated in such a way that it can apply gas overpressure of various intensities up to 8 bar to mortar and concrete samples. Simultaneously, it can control and regulate the ambient CO2 concentration from 0 to 99.5% in a fully automated and continuously variable procedure. Experiments were carried out with varying combinations of gas overpressure at CO2 concentrations of 3 vol.-% to achieve the most time-efficient carbonation of mortars and concretes. Mortars with different material compositions were used to evaluate the general suitability of the test procedure with the developed equipment. The automated carbonation pressure chamber enables reliable carbonation testing with a total duration under accelerated conditions of only 7 days. KW - Carbonation KW - concrete KW - durability KW - accelerated testing KW - gas overpressure Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33211-1_30 SP - 336 EP - 346 PB - Springer ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Thiel, Charlotte A1 - Schoen, Alex A1 - Gehlen, Christoph T1 - Einfluss der CO2-Permeation auf die Carbonatisierung zementgebundener Baustoffe T2 - Tagungsbericht: Ibausil, 20. Internationale Baustofftagung, 12.-14. September 2018, Weimar Y1 - 2018 SP - 153 EP - 161 PB - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar ER -