The focus of this work is to present test results on the bond steel-mortar interface undergoing stray current. strength, derived by pull-out tests, correlated electrochemical response steel rebar and properties mortar bulk matrix. effects curing regimes (in terms duration curing) starting point current are also investigated. It found that exerts degradation in all investigated cases, irrespecti...

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...

An experimental test was performed to study the bond behavior between steel rebar and concrete reinforced by polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibers. Twenty specimens were prepared subjected pull-out test. Four different fiber volume contents (0%, 0.2%, 0.4%, 0.6%) considered with strength grade of C35 designed in present study. The effects PVA fibers, diameter, cover depth on clarified. fibers mechanic...

Cracking of the concrete cover due to corrosion is defined as the serviceability limit state of reinforced concrete structures. This study evaluated the influence of a mineral admixture i.e. nano wollastonite on corrosion performance and serviceability of reinforced concrete structures by performing an accelerated corrosion test on ten reinforced concrete beams under a sustained load. To do so,...

Failure modes in recent earthquakes on lightly reinforced shear walls includes rebar fracture and out of plane buckling of its boundary elements. In latest edition of ACI 318 and also latest amendment of NZS 3101-2006 to avoid rebar fracture in boundary elements, the minimum reinforcement ratio for shear walls is increased. This experimental study investigates that rather than increasing reinfo...

In this paper, the effect of Polypropylene Fibers added to concrete on strength and thermal resistance of high strength concrete has been investigated. Therefore, five tests have been carried out to reach this goal which it includes; effect of weight percent of polypropylene fibers on mechanical properties of concrete, effect of fiber’s length on the strength of high strength concrete, effect o...

A 42-year-old woman was referred to our institution with sudden onset of ataxia, facial paresis, horizontal gaze palsy, and progressive dysarthria. The patient worsened within a few minutes, with appearance of left hemiparesis. The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale Score was 13. On computer tomography scan 2 hours after stroke onset, no brain stem lesion or intracranial bleeding was vi...

The applications of the deep belief network (DBN) for addressing practical engineering issues have recently emerged all over world thanks to its accuracy and availability data. In this paper, a predictive model using DBN was employed investigate factors that affect ground-penetrating radar (GPR) signals from rebar embedded in concrete structures. Four variables, namely temperature, relative hum...