CONTECVET - A validated Users Manual for assessing the residual service life of concrete structures

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Description

This Manual present (sic.) an effective process of assessing concrete structures affected by rebar corrosion. Current version (sic.) has been validated by means of its application to several Case Studies. The source information for the assessment concrete structures is based on an extensive testing plan developed for the Brite Euram project BE - 4062. Its final result was an assessing manual where many of the concepts here presented were established.

By means of the application to realistic Case Studies during the CONTECVET project the manual have been calibrated and refined. Several corrosion indexes have been developed in order to represent the damage level: corrosion process and their effect in the structural load bearing capacity.