Keywords
chlorides
probabilistic analysis
reinforced concrete structures
Abstract
Concrete and reinforced concrete structures are subjected to chloride corrosion, which can shorten their service life and safety of use. Reliability and safety prediction of concrete structures is a crucial task for optimizing their life cycle design and maintenance and for minimizing their life cycle costs. In the paper a probabilistic analysis of concrete durability in structural members is presented. Two methods: simplified-probabilistic and full-probabilistic have been applied for modelling chloride-induced corrosion in concrete structures. The uncertainty of the key parameters including surface chloride concentration, chloride threshold, cover depth and diffusion coefficient, which govern the chloride ingress into concrete and corrosion of reinforcing steel have been analyzed. A case study of a reinforced concrete bridge has been used to illustrate the capability and efficiency of these probabilistic methods in modeling the uncertainty and predicting the time-dependent probability of corrosion. FREeT-D and ProCAAT software have been used for the analysis.
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