Effect of Corrosion Damage on the Ductility Performance of Concrete Columns
- 1 Annamalai University, India
Abstract
Problem statement: An experimental investigation was carried out on reinforced concrete columns with corroding reinforcement to assess the residual strength and ductility performance of columns. Approach: An accelerated corrosion regime of different degrees of corrosion damage of 10 and 25% were induced in the steel reinforcement of concrete columns. The columns were then tested under uni-axial compression until failure. Results: The results showed a marked reduction in axial strength and ductility of the corroded concrete columns. Conclusion/Recommendations: The increase in corrosion intensity decreased the axial load carrying capacity of the columns and hence reduction in ductility of the corroded columns.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajeassp.2009.324.327
Copyright: © 2009 J. Revathy, K. Suguna and P. N. Raghunath. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Axial loads
- corrosion
- ductility
- RC columns
- residual strength