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Durability failures in reinforced concrete structures are wasteful of resources and energy. The introduction to practice of European Standard EN 206-1 represents a significant shift in emphasis on the need to explicitly consider each potential durability threat when specifying... Read Full Overview

This covers reinforcement corrosion, carbonation, chloride ingress, alkali-aggregate reaction, freeze/thaw, sulfate attack, acid and seawater attack, cracking, abrasion, erosion, cavitation and weathering. With international standards, probabilistic design, mathematical modelling... Read Full Overview