Corrosion Durability and Structural Response of RC Beams Containing Supplementary Cementing Materials

This paper reports the results of an experimental program on the effect of fly ash, slag and silica fume used as partial replacement of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) in retarding the corrosion of steel in medium-scale reinforced concrete beams. Eight reinforce concrete beams measuring 2.5 meters in...

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Main Authors: Ahmed, Shaikh, Maalej, M., Paramasivam, P., Mihashi, H.
Other Authors: Brown, T.G.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Canadian society for civil engineers 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27722
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author Ahmed, Shaikh
Maalej, M.
Paramasivam, P.
Mihashi, H.
author2 Brown, T.G.
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Ahmed, Shaikh
Maalej, M.
Paramasivam, P.
Mihashi, H.
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description This paper reports the results of an experimental program on the effect of fly ash, slag and silica fume used as partial replacement of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) in retarding the corrosion of steel in medium-scale reinforced concrete beams. Eight reinforce concrete beams measuring 2.5 meters in length and 210 x 300 mm in cross-section were cast, four of which were subjected to accelerated corrosion. It was found that concrete containing fly ash, slag and silica fume showed better corrosion protection of steel in RC beams than OPC concrete. Among these, fly ash concrete showed the best performance in terms of lowest corrosion current (hence lowest steel loss), least visual damage and lowest tendency for delamination as measured by a concrete-embeddable fibre optic strain sensor. Corroded and un-corroded RC beams were tested under four point bending in order to evaluate the effect of corrosion damage on flexural behaviour of the beams. The results showed that corroded RC beam containing fly ash lost only 3% of its ultimate load capacity compared to 13% strength loss observed in the corroded OPC concrete beam.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-277222023-02-27T07:34:28Z Corrosion Durability and Structural Response of RC Beams Containing Supplementary Cementing Materials Ahmed, Shaikh Maalej, M. Paramasivam, P. Mihashi, H. Brown, T.G. Danylnk, D. OPC Concrete corrosion durability This paper reports the results of an experimental program on the effect of fly ash, slag and silica fume used as partial replacement of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) in retarding the corrosion of steel in medium-scale reinforced concrete beams. Eight reinforce concrete beams measuring 2.5 meters in length and 210 x 300 mm in cross-section were cast, four of which were subjected to accelerated corrosion. It was found that concrete containing fly ash, slag and silica fume showed better corrosion protection of steel in RC beams than OPC concrete. Among these, fly ash concrete showed the best performance in terms of lowest corrosion current (hence lowest steel loss), least visual damage and lowest tendency for delamination as measured by a concrete-embeddable fibre optic strain sensor. Corroded and un-corroded RC beams were tested under four point bending in order to evaluate the effect of corrosion damage on flexural behaviour of the beams. The results showed that corroded RC beam containing fly ash lost only 3% of its ultimate load capacity compared to 13% strength loss observed in the corroded OPC concrete beam. 2006 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27722 Canadian society for civil engineers restricted
spellingShingle OPC Concrete
corrosion durability
Ahmed, Shaikh
Maalej, M.
Paramasivam, P.
Mihashi, H.
Corrosion Durability and Structural Response of RC Beams Containing Supplementary Cementing Materials
title Corrosion Durability and Structural Response of RC Beams Containing Supplementary Cementing Materials
title_full Corrosion Durability and Structural Response of RC Beams Containing Supplementary Cementing Materials
title_fullStr Corrosion Durability and Structural Response of RC Beams Containing Supplementary Cementing Materials
title_full_unstemmed Corrosion Durability and Structural Response of RC Beams Containing Supplementary Cementing Materials
title_short Corrosion Durability and Structural Response of RC Beams Containing Supplementary Cementing Materials
title_sort corrosion durability and structural response of rc beams containing supplementary cementing materials
topic OPC Concrete
corrosion durability
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27722