Nondestructive Corrosion Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Decks with Overlays
Title | Nondestructive Corrosion Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Decks with Overlays PDF eBook |
Author | Dewei Meng |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Concrete bridges |
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Concrete corrosion induced by deicing agents can decrease the durability of concrete bridge decks by causing cross-sectional loss of reinforcement, concrete delamination, and spalling owing to the expansion of corroded reinforcement. The installation of overlays can extend the service life of the deteriorated decks. However, overlays present challenges in the evaluation of the corrosion condition of the underlying decks. This laboratory study employed three nondestructive testing (NDT) methods to assess the effects of seven types of overlays on corrosion evaluation for concrete bridge decks. The NDT methods were electrical resistivity (ER), ground-penetrating radar (GPR), and half-cell potential (HCP). The ER method could not evaluate the corrosive environment in the concrete decks through the overlays. The GPR method could detect the corrosive environment through four of the seven overlays. The HCP method could detect the decrease of electrical potential over the actively corroded reinforcement for all seven specimens; however, only two of the seven specimens could be identified as having active corrosion per ASTM C876-15, Standard Test Method for Corrosion Potentials of Uncoated Reinforcing Steel in Concrete . Overlay debonding did not affect GPR and HCP testing results in this study.
Nondestructive Testing to Identify Concrete Bridge Deck Deterioration
Title | Nondestructive Testing to Identify Concrete Bridge Deck Deterioration PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Transportation Research Board |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0309129338 |
" TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R06A-RR-1: Nondestructive Testing to Identify Concrete Bridge Deck Deterioration identifies nondestructive testing technologies for detecting and characterizing common forms of deterioration in concrete bridge decks.The report also documents the validation of promising technologies, and grades and ranks the technologies based on results of the validations.The main product of this project will be an electronic repository for practitioners, known as the NDToolbox, which will provide information regarding recommended technologies for the detection of a particular deterioration. " -- publisher's description.
Manual on Service Life of Corrosion-damaged Reinforced Concrete Bridge Superstructure Elements
Title | Manual on Service Life of Corrosion-damaged Reinforced Concrete Bridge Superstructure Elements PDF eBook |
Author | Ali Akbar Sohanghpurwala |
Publisher | Transportation Research Board |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Bridges, Concrete |
ISBN | 0309098629 |
Nondestructive Evaluation of Concrete Bridge Decks with Overlays
Title | Nondestructive Evaluation of Concrete Bridge Decks with Overlays PDF eBook |
Author | Shibin Lin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Bridge decks |
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Concrete bridge deck overlays have been used in the United States since 1960 to extend the service life of deteriorated concrete bridge decks and improve reliability. Concrete bridge decks with overlays suffer various types of deterioration, so it is necessary to identify and assess the effectiveness of different nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technologies in the laboratory under controlled conditions and in the field under actual conditions. This report provides an overview of seven types of widely used overlays: asphalt with a liquid membrane, asphalt with a fabric membrane, asphalt without a membrane, silica fume-modified concrete, latex-modified concrete (LMC), epoxy polymer concrete, and polyester polymer concrete. This report identifies and ranks available and promising NDE technologies to assess the performance of different types of overlays and concrete bridge decks. This report describes laboratory validation on overlays for nine commonly used NDE technologies. The nine NDE technologies are: sounding, ultrasonic surface waves (USW), impact echo (IE), ultrasonic tomography (UT), impulse response (IR), ground-penetrating radar (GPR), electrical resistivity (ER), half-cell potential (HCP), and infrared thermography (IRT). This report details the results of laboratory tests validating the NDE technologies for the seven different types of overlays. Field validation using the RABITTM bridge deck assessment tool and manual testing equipment was also performed. Results from the study on which this report is based indicated that GPR was the most effective method for detecting defects in underlying concrete specimens through both bonded and debonded overlays; however, GPR could not detect overlay debonding. Results also showed that USW, IE, and UT were effective stress-wave-based methods for detecting defects under bonded overlays but not asphalt overlays. Researchers found that asphalt overlays at low temperatures (i.e., 32°F or below) improved the applicability of
Nondestructive Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Elements Subject to Corrosion of Reinforcing Steel
Title | Nondestructive Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Elements Subject to Corrosion of Reinforcing Steel PDF eBook |
Author | Hyung-seop Shim |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Bridges |
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Implementation of a Non-Metallic Reinforced Bridge Deck, Volume 1
Title | Implementation of a Non-Metallic Reinforced Bridge Deck, Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Frosch |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2006-05-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781622601394 |
Evaluation of Bridge Deck Repair and Protective Systems
Title | Evaluation of Bridge Deck Repair and Protective Systems PDF eBook |
Author | Lowell B. Steere |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Bridges |
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