ABSTRACT
Over the last decades, considerable efforts have been made in science and engineering to predict initiation of chloride-induced reinforcement corrosion in concrete. After it was recognized in the second half of the last century that i) initiation of pitting corrosion in alkaline concrete requires the presence of chloride and that ii) some sort of correlation exists between the risk for corrosion initiation and the chloride concentration in the concrete (Hausmann, 1967, Richartz, 1969, Vassie, 1984), the concept of the critical chloride content or chloride threshold value was bora. This concept is now well-established and reflects the wide-spread belief that initiation of chloride-induced reinforcement corrosion can be predicted directly as a function of the chloride concentration.
