Service Life and Durability of Reinforced Concrete Structures

Part 1: Concrete properties and initiation period processes.- Effect of LDH nano-flakes on the mechanical and transport properties of lightweight concrete, by Z. Y. Qu, Q.L. Yu, and H.J.H. Brouwers.- Using thymolphthalein for accelerated carbonation testing of high volume fly ash cementitious blends, by Rui Reis, Aires Camões,  and Manuel Ribeiro.- Durability and Mechanical Properties of CNT Cement Composites, by Carmen Camacho-Ballesta, Óscar Galao, Francisco Javier Baeza,  Emilio Zornoza, and Pedro Garcés.- Advances in coal bottom ash use as a new common Portland cement constituent, by Cristina Argiz, Esperanza Menéndez, and Amparo Moragues.- Part 2: Techniques of characterization of corrosion and degradation.-  Numerical Simulations for the detection of leakages in bridge deck membranes through resistivity measurements, by Carla Driessen and Michael Raupach.- Numerical and experimental development of gradient potential measurement for corrosion detection in reinforcedconcrete, by S. Garcia and F. Deby.- Advances in Characterization of Gas Transport in Concrete: Determination of Oxygen Diffusion Coefficient from Permeability Coefficient and Porosity, by P. Linares, C. Andrade, and D. Baza.- Petrographic Study of Siliceous Aggregates. Parametric Calculus of the Reactivity With the Alkalis, by R. García-Rovés Loza, E. Méndez, and N. Prendes Rubiera.-  Part 3: Behaviour of corroded structures.- Corrosion-Induced Degradation of Reinforced Concrete Elements: Preliminary Results, by O. Loukil, L. Adelaide, V. Bouteiller, M. Quiertant, T. Chaussadent, F.Ragueneau, X. Bourbon,  and L. Trenty.- Part 4: Corrosion prevention and repair techniques.- Development of a test Method for the Durability of Carbon Textiles under Anodic Polarisation, by Amir Asgharzadeh and Michael Raupach.- Corrosion processes of carbonated chloride-contaminated reinforced concrete and electrochemical chloride extraction (ECE) efficiency, by Yolaine Tissier, Véronique