Corrosion of reinforcement and hits inspection in high alumina cement concrete

Abstract

Until recently has not become evident the magnitude of the problem that the corrosion of the reinforcement supposes for concrete technology. That is why, when aluminous cement preliminary degradations appeared it was not foreseen the dimension of future consequences..Now, the long term difficulty that aluminous cement presents is, in addition to the loss in mechanical strength, the possible corrosion of reinforcement. In present work are described aspects related to the processes which may originate the corrosion and given are some practical indications on how evaluate it.