第1页共43页编号:时间:2021年x月x日书山有路勤为径,学海无涯苦作舟页码:第1页共43页外文文献:MaterialsandStructures©RILEM201010.1617/s11527-010-9700-yOriginalArticleImpactofcrackwidthonbond:confinedandunconfinedrebarDavidW.Law1,DengleiTang2,ThomasK.C.Molyneaux3andRebeccaGravina3(1)SchooloftheBuiltEnvironment,HeriotWattUniversity,Edinburgh,EH144AS,UK(2)VicRoads,Melbourne,VIC,Australia(3)SchoolofCivil,EnvironmentalandChemicalEngineering,RMITUniversity,Melbourne,VIC,3000,AustraliaDavidW.LawEmail:D.W.Law@hw.ac.ukReceived:14January2010Accepted:14December2010Publishedonline:23December2010Abstract第2页共43页第1页共43页编号:时间:2021年x月x日书山有路勤为径,学海无涯苦作舟页码:第2页共43页Thispaperreportstheresultsofaresearchprojectcomparingtheeffectofsurfacecrackwidthanddegreeofcorrosiononthebondstrengthofconfinedandunconfineddeformed12and16mmmildsteelreinforcingbars.ThecorrosionwasinducedbychloridecontaminationoftheconcreteandanappliedDCcurrent.Theprincipalparametersinvestigatedwereconfinementofthereinforcement,thecoverdepth,bardiameter,degreeofcorrosionandthesurfacecrackwidth.Theresultsindicatedthatpotentialrelationshipbetweenthecrackwidthandthebondstrength.Theresultsalsoshowedanincreaseinbondstrengthatthepointwhereinitialsurfacecrackingwasobservedforbarswithconfiningstirrups.Nosuchincreasewasobservedwithunconfinedspecimens.Keywords:bond;corrosion;rebar;cover;crackwidth;concrete第3页共43页第2页共43页编号:时间:2021年x月x日书山有路勤为径,学海无涯苦作舟页码:第3页共43页1IntroductionThecorrosionofsteelreinforcementisamajorcauseofthedeteriorationofreinforcedconcretestructuresthroughouttheworld.Inuncorrodedstructuresthebondbetweenthesteelreinforcementandtheconcreteensuresthatreinforcedconcreteactsinacompositemanner.However,whencorrosionofthesteeloccursthiscompositeperformanceisadverselyaffected.Thisisduetotheformationofcorrosionproductsonthesteelsurface,whichaffectthebondbetweenthesteelandtheconcrete.Thedeteriorationofreinforcedconcreteischaracterizedbyageneralorlocalizedlossofsectiononthereinforcingbarsandtheformationofexpansivecorrosionproducts.Thisdeteriorationcanaffectstructuresinanumberofways;theproductionofexpansiveproductscreatestensilestresseswithintheconcrete,whichcanresultincrackingandspallingoftheconcretecover.Thiscrackingcanleadtoacceleratedingressoftheaggressiveagentscausingfurthercorrosion.Itcanalsoresultinalossofstrengthandstiffnessoftheconcretecover.Thecorrosionproductscanalsoaffectthebondstrengthbetweenthe第4页共43页第3页共43页编号:时间:2021年x月x日书山有路勤为径,学海无涯苦作舟页码:第4页共43页concreteandthereinforcingsteel.Finallythecorrosionreducesthecrosssectionofthereinforcingsteel,whichcanaffecttheductilityofthesteelandtheloadbearingcapacity,whichcanultimatelyimpactupontheserviceabilityofthestructureandthestructuralcapacity[12,25].Previousresearchhasinvestigatedtheimpactofcorrosiononbond[2–5,7,12,20,23–25,27,29],withanumberofmodelsbeingproposed[4,6,9,10,18,19,24,29].Themajorityofthisresearchhasfocusedontherelationshipbetweenthelevelofcorrosion(masslossofsteel)orthecurrentdensitydegree(corrosioncurrentappliedinacceleratedtesting)andcrackwidth,orontherelationshipbetweenbondstrengthandlevelofcorrosion.Otherresearchhasinvestigatedthemechanicalbehaviourofcorrodedsteel[1,11]andthefrictioncharacteristics[13].However,littleresearchhasfocusedontherelationshipb...