Half I DETERIORATION OF CONCRETE MATERIALS

1. Carbonation and Induced Metal Corrosion.

2. Chloride Ingress and Induced Metal Corrosion.

3. Freeze Thaw Harm.

4. Leaching.

5. Salt Crystallization.

Half II FROM MATERIALS TO STRUCTURES

6. Deterioration in Structural Contexts.

Half III DURABILITY DESIGN OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES

7. Durability Design: Approaches and Strategies.

8. Durability Design: Properties and Indicators.

9. Durability Design: Purposes.

10. Codes for Durability Design.

PREFACE:

Durability of Concrete Structures: State of the Artwork Durability is a time period associated to each efficiency and time, reflecting the diploma to which a construction/infrastructure meets its meant capabilities for a given length of time. This description applies to all sorts of construction and infrastructures in civil engineering. Really, through the service life a construction shows time dependent behaviors by ageing of the structural supplies.

The ageing processes might be intrinsic to the structural supplies or induced by the interactions between the service situations and the structural supplies. This image holds for all constructions and their constitutive supplies. In reality, concrete constructions have transient behaviors as a result of some well-known time dependent properties of structural concrete, resembling shrinkage and creep.

Take creep, for instance. Engineers had been challenged by this evolving property as early because the 1900s, the very starting of concrete constructions coming into use. Throughout the next years the shortage of consideration of creep, certainly as a result of lack of information, had brought on some severe accidents in structural engineering; for instance, the collapse of the Koror Babelthuap Bridge, Palau, in 1996.

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