Concrete deterioration: causes, diagnosis, and minimising risk

By D. Hobbs. 2001

144 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Performance of alkali-activated slag mortars exposed to acids (2012, background): “Chemical attack on Portland cement materials has been classified by the American Concrete Institute Technical Committee 201 [2,3] as being a function of the mechanism and the agent that leads to material degradation: alkaline attack, carbonation, chloride attack, leaching, sulphate attack and acid a”
Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Binder: A Future Construction Material (2018, background): “There occurs expansion, cracking and scaling mass loss due to freeze-thaw attack [58].”
Fly ash-based geopolymer: clean production, properties and applications (2016, background): “Freeze-thaw attack usually causes cement and concrete expansion, internal cracking, and scaling mass loss (Hobbs, 2001).”
Natural carbonation of aged alkali-activated slag concretes (2014, background): “The carbonation process leads in the long term to a reduction of alkalinity in the cementitious system, often accompanied by reduced mechanical performance, and potentially also the corrosion of steel reinforcement if the loss of alkalinity is sufficiently severe [12–17].”
Accelerated carbonation testing of alkali-activated slag/metakaolin blended concretes: effect of exposure conditions (2015, background): “exposure, through a degradation process referred to as carbonation [1-3].”