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Corrosion of steel reinforcement in concrete structures is a major durability problem around the world. Reinforced Concrete (RC) structures exposed to chloride and high temperature environments like sea, deicing salts, deserts and industrial zones suffer from accelerated corrosion of rebars. There is no doubt that the presence of chloride ions promote the disruption of the passive layer causing corrosion of reinforcement and the chloride attack becomes much more severe when coupled with high temperature. Therefore, to be able to forecast the service life of RC structures it is necessary to quantify the amount of corrosion. The chloride attack and increase in the electrochemical reaction rate of corrosion due to high temperature is an electrochemical thermodynamic phenomenon influenced by several factors and some of them are being overlooked in the past research works and have difference in opinion. Also it was found that the experimental data for the coupled effect of chloride and temperature on corrosion of reinforcement especially in the high temperature range and high chloride concentration is limited. The objective of this book is therefore, to investigate the effects of coupling chloride and temperature on corrosion of reinforcement throughout the life of concrete structures by incorporating realistic electrochemical-thermodynamic models and actual field condition experimentation. The modeling task has been accomplished by the use of a concrete durability model developed by our research group (Concrete Laboratory, University of Tokyo) as a computational platform on which the corrosion based reinforced concrete performance and quality throughout the life of concrete structure is examined in both space and time domains under environmental actions of chloride and high temperature. In this thermodynamic approach, reinforced concrete is treated as a composite material consisting of growing micro-scale pores in geometry, which governs basic mechanical and physical features of concrete with respect to long-term durability. On this line, the electrochemical-thermodynamic modeling of concrete forms the fundamental core of the theoretical approach to achieve both the scientific knowledge and engineering simulations of altering materials. The experimental results for the effect of chloride and temperature on corrosion have been compared with the thermodynamic corrosion model and are found to be in close agreement. In the light of experimental results, the behavior of RC corrosion is found to increase non-linearly with the increase in chloride content and temperature. The half-cell potential values are found to randomly increase and decrease in a non-uniform manner due to the destruction and reformation of passive layer by localized attack of chloride on the passive layer and increased rate of reaction at high temperature as a function of time. The rate of corrosion from 20°C to 40°C temperature is found to be more than from 40°C to 60°C temperature range because of the decrease of solubility of oxygen in the pore water at high temperature range. Finally, the specimens were broken and gravimetric corrosion weight loss was determined experimentally and modeled analytically.

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Dr. Raja Rizwan Hussain, Associate Professor at CoE-CRT, Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, KSA. E-mail: raja386@hotmail.com, Tel: +966590011078. Postal Address: PO Box: 800, CoE-CRT, Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11421, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in 2006 and 2008 in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan which is ranked among Top 20 universities in the world. Dr. Hussain was ranked as outstanding student and was awarded the best research thesis, prize and medal from the University of Tokyo. He also completed his Ph.D. in a record short period of just two years. He is the editor of several ISI-indexed international journals. He has also served as guest editor for several international ISI-indexed journals. Moreover, he is one of the organizing chairs and member of technical committees for more than 6 dozen international conferences, symposiums and seminars. In addition, he is an active reviewer of many international ISI-indexed journals. Dr. Hussain has received more than 80 medals, awards, prizes and distinctions throughout his research, academic and professional career. Dr. Hussain has authored more than 170 research publications including ISI-indexed journal papers, international conference proceedings, edited books, editorials, expos, invention shows and exhibitions, technical reports etc. He is also an inventor of 9 US, WO & KSA international patents. He has secured about 20 national and international research grants worth millions of US Dollars. He is an active member of more than two dozen international societies, organizations, councils & committees. His research areas of interest lie in steel reinforced concrete technology - materials & structures, especially corrosion. Dr. Raja Rizwan Hussain's achievements can be summarized as follows: Total publications (172) ISI Journal Papers (54) International Conference Papers (33) International US & WO Patents (9) Books, editorials, expos, invention shows, technical reports, other journal papers etc. (58) R&D Government and Private Funded Research Project Grants (19) of about (5) Million USD. Journal Editorial Board Positions (88) Conferences, Seminars and Symposium Organizational Works (73) Societies, Organizations, Councils & Committees (27) Subjects taught to under graduate, M.Sc. and Ph.D (14) in three different universities around the world Countries Visited (47)

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