A review on the deterioration and approaches to enhance the durability of concrete in the marine environment

Y Yi, D Zhu, S Guo, Z Zhang, C Shi - Cement and Concrete Composites, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of the deterioration of concrete under seawater attack with
particular interests in field exposure. The research reported in the literature has shown that …

Environmental impact and life cycle assessment (LCA) of traditional and 'green'concretes: Literature review and theoretical calculations

P Van den Heede, N De Belie - Cement and concrete composites, 2012 - Elsevier
With the current focus on sustainability, it is necessary to evaluate concrete's environmental
impact properly, especially when develo** new 'green'concrete types. Therefore, we …

Climate change impact and risks of concrete infrastructure deterioration

MG Stewart, X Wang, MN Nguyen - Engineering Structures, 2011 - Elsevier
Atmospheric CO2 is a major cause of reinforcement corrosion in bridges, buildings,
wharves, and other concrete infrastructure in Australia, United States, United Kingdom and …

Deterioration of marine concrete exposed to wetting-drying action

MZY Ting, KS Wong, ME Rahman… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
The adverse effects of hostile marine environment on concrete structure have inevitably
resulted in huge economic loss and may contribute to catastrophic failure. Concrete is …

Sustainable life-cycle maintenance policymaking for network-level deteriorating bridges with a convolutional autoencoder–structured reinforcement learning agent

X Lei, Y Dong, DM Frangopol - Journal of Bridge Engineering, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
Bridges play a significant role in urban areas, and their performance and safety are highly
related to the carbon emissions of infrastructure systems. Previous studies have mainly …

Structural performance of stainless steel reinforced concrete members: A review

M Rabi, R Shamass, KA Cashell - Construction and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Degradation of reinforced concrete (RC) infrastructure because of corrosion of the steel
reinforcement is a well-known and expensive global problem. The inspection, repair …

Effect of seawater on the properties and microstructure of metakaolin/slag-based geopolymers

L Kuang, G Li, J **ang, W Ma, X Cui - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Metakaolin-based geopolymer has good resistance to seawater erosion, but it often requires
more alkali activators, resulting in higher costs, and its curing time is far greater than that of …

Potential application of geopolymers as protection coatings for marine concrete: II. Microstructure and anticorrosion mechanism

Z Zhang, X Yao, H Zhu - Applied clay science, 2010 - Elsevier
The excellent anticorrosion property of geopolymers in sea water and their efficient bonding
to hardened cement paste did not only depend on the chemical compositions but were also …

Corrosion resistance of Fe-Cr-based amorphous alloys: An overview

CAC Souza, DV Ribeiro, CS Kiminami - Journal of non-crystalline solids, 2016 - Elsevier
The present article focuses on the current status of research and development concerning
corrosion resistance of Fe-Cr-based amorphous alloys and gives suggestions for further …

[BOOK][B] Life cycle costing for engineers

BS Dhillon - 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
Cradle-to-grave analyses are becoming the norm, as an increasing amount of corporations
and government agencies are basing their procurement decisions not only on initial costs …