Reinforcement corrosion causes destruction to the steel by a loss in cross section and rib height, which can affect bond between concrete. During repair of corrosion-damaged reinforced concrete members, protective coating is usually applied cleaned corroded steel. There is, however, little information available on performance coatings. Furthermore, effect their thickness other parameters like r...

This manuscript describes the “smart” control system designed for a geothermal bridge deck heating system. The control system integrates concepts of model predictive control with a first-principles bridge deck model and hourly computerized National Weather Service (NWS) forecasts to prevent bridge icing without the use of salt or other chemical de-icing materials. The proactive nature of the co...

A partial pre-rusted wire beam electrode (WBE) was designed to study the influence of rust layer on rebar corrosion in carbonated simulated concrete pore solution (SCPS). The results show that passive film generated steel area is more fragile than formed fine polished carbonaceous media. Nevertheless, pitting resulting from presence chloride ions still tends occur surface due local acidificatio...

As Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is increasingly employed for assessing the condition of bridge decks, quantifying and controlling the quality of GPR data becomes an important challenge. This paper uses a methodology to assess the accuracy of deck condition measures, and demonstrates the methodology in a case study involving real data. The latter are generated during GPR applications on a larg...

Strengthening of the existing seismically deficient reinforced concrete (RC) buildings is an important issue in earthquake prone regions. Addition of RC shear wall as infill or external walls into the structural system has been a commonly preferred strengthening technique since the Big Erzincan Earthquake occurred in Turkey, 1992. The newly added rigid infill walls act primarily as shear walls ...