Salt damage in porous materials: how high supersaturations are generated

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Combined evaporation and salt precipitation in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media (2011, background): “because supersaturation is common in evaporating solutions: for NaCl, a supersaturation of 2 is common [Flatt, 2002; Scherer, 1999].”
Current knowledge of external sulfate attack (2015, background): “Crystallisation pressure The more recent theory of crystallisation pressure (Correns, 1949; Flatt, 2002; Flatt and Scherer, 2008; Scherer, 1999, 2004) appears to be a more plausible mechanism behind expansion.”
Fly ash addition in clayey materials to improve the quality of solid bricks (2009, background): “These pores are particularly dangerous for the durability of porous solid materials as, among other things, they help to augment the pressure caused by the crystallization of soluble salts in the pore walls [32].”
Challenges and opportunities in corrosion of steel in concrete (2018, unknown): “Indeed, it is well known that precipitates will only exert expansive stresses if they are forced to grow under confined conditions, such as against pore walls [90-94].”
Weathering and Deterioration (2011, background): “It is now accepted that the destructive effect is due to the growth of mirabilite crystals from the highly supersaturated solutions originating from the dissolution of anhydrous sodium sulfate during the re-wetting phase (Chatterji and Jensen 1989, Flatt 2002).”