Damage to Concrete Structures - Hardcover

De Schutter, Geert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 103291212X ISBN 13: 9781032912127

Verlag: CRC Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Serious degradation mechanisms can severely reduce the service life of concrete structures: steel reinforcement can corrode, cement matrix can be attacked, and even aggregates can show detrimental processes. Therefore, it is important to understand how damage can occur to concrete structures and to appreciate the timing of the actions leading to damage. Offering a logical flow, this introduces the different actions or mechanisms in a fundamental manner, without too many physical or chemical details. It describes the different causes of damage to concrete, including inappropriate design, errors during execution, mechanisms occurring during hardening of concrete, and actions or degradation mechanisms during service life (hardened concrete). The degradation mechanisms are illustrated with numerous real-world examples and many drawings and photographs taken of actual structures. Written as a textbook for students as well as a reference for professionals, this easy-to-comprehend book gives readers a deeper understanding of the damage that can occur to concrete during the construction process and service.

This revised version is updated throughout, with information on performance based approaches for durability design, and moving away from current descriptive approaches. A new chapter describes the risks related to valorization of secondary or waste materials in concrete. It now includes some focus on sustainability, and not only on durability.

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Geert De Schutter is research professor, technical director of the Magnel-Vandepitte Laboratory and head of the Department of Structural Engineering and Building Materials at Ghent University, Belgium. He is a RILEM Fellow and ACI Fellow and recipient of the RILEM Robert L’Hermite Medal and ACI Arthur Anderson Medal. He is also an author of the Open Access book Active Rheology Control of Cementitious Materials (CRC Press, 2023).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 103291212X
• ISBN 13: 9781032912127
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: CRC Press; https://www.routledge-ny.com; ; 6000 BROKEN SOUND PARKWAY, NW SUITE 300; BOCA RATON; FL; 33487; USA
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