...G. K. Glass, MSc, PhD; B. Reddy, MSc, PhD; L. A. Clark, OBE, BEng, PhD, CEng, FICE, FIStructE, FREng Chloride-induced corrosion is a major factor affecting the durability of reinforced-concrete structures. However, a high tolerance to chloride contamination has often been achieved under laboratory...

...F. Micelli; A. La Tegola Masonry structures are prone to brittle failure due to seismic forces or compressive overloads. A novel retrofitting technique is presented for the confinement of masonry columns subjected to compressive loads. The use of steel strands immersed in a cementitious matrix...

.... The primary source of chlorides is from the external environment, either from marine structures or de-icing salts. The most commonly used method of predicting or modelling chloride ingress is to use Fick's second law. Inevitably, there are significant variations involved in the positioning of the steel...

.... Of all the durability problems facing concrete, corrosion of reinforcement is considered the most serious, in terms both of structural damage and of cost of repairs. 3 , 4 The problem of corrosion comes from the depassivation of steel by chloride ions. Corrosion of concrete reinforcement is due...