ABSTRACT
In the past, most of the design studies in the literature and research in reinforced concrete assumed that the durability of reinforced concrete structures could be taken for granted. However, many reinforced concrete structures are exposed during their lifetimes to environmental stress (e.g., corrosion and expansive aggregate reactions), which attacks the concrete or steel reinforcement (Cady and Weyers 1984; Kilareski 1980; Mori and Ellingwood 1994; Takewaka and Matsumoto 1988; Thoft-Christensen 1995). Corrosion of reinforced steel bars is considered to have been the most famous problem facing structural engineers in the last decade. In order to avoid corrosion of the steel bars in a concrete structure, we need to understand the corrosion phenomenon so that we can provide different engineering solutions to this problem.
