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Robert E. Melchers
Corrosion on the interface between a metal alloy, such as steel, and a wet, permeable non-metallic medium is of considerable practical interest. Examples include the interface between steel and water, the atmosphere or concrete, as for steel reinforcemen...
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Pascual Saura Gómez, Javier Sánchez Montero, Julio Emilio Torres Martín, Servando Chinchón-Payá, Nuria Rebolledo Ramos and Óscar Galao Malo
Most regulations on the manufacturing of concrete for reinforced concrete structures rest on durability models that consider the corrosion of reinforcements. Those models are based on factors such as humidity, frost, presence of chlorides, and internal c...
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Toni Utech, Tobias Neef, Viktor Mechtcherine and Christina Scheffler
Nature provides various templates for integrating organic and inorganic materials to create high-performance composites. Biological structures such as nacre and the structural elements of the glass sponge are built up in layers, leading to remarkable fra...
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Lavanya Muthugoundenpalayam Rajendran, Johnpaul Vincent, Balasundaram Natarajan and Venkatesan Govindan
Concrete must be a hydrophilic compound that is easily fabricated by nature. At the nanoscale, mechanical and chemical reactions alter the quality of cement-based substances. Continuous sprinkling of nano-silica solution synthesised with minimal surface ...
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Kien Dinh, Khiem Tran, Nenad Gucunski, Christopher C. Ferraro and Tu Nguyen
Since 1987 when dry-point-contact (DPC) transducers were invented in the USSR, ultrasonic shear wave devices based on those transducers have been commercialized and have become one of the most effective technologies for imaging concrete. That said, the o...
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