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Project

Use of electrochemical techniques for monitoring the corrosion behaviour of reinforcement embedded in concrete
Code
01B08815
Duration
01 June 2015 → 31 May 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Engineering and technology
    • Building engineering
Keywords
self-healing crack formation electrochemistry reinforced concrete corrosion
 
Project description
 

The Magnel Laboratory is very active within the research domain of self-healing materials. In current research we investigate whether self-healing of concrete cracks can prevent reinforcement corrosion. Therefore, electrochemical measurements such as monitoring corrosion potential, measuring polarization resistance,… are used. Currently a potentiostat of another research group is used but we strongly feel the need to have an own
potentiostat.