The Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is responsible for providing corrosion control for both civil works and military structures and facilities. The Corps has been a leader in developing, designing, and installing cathodic protection (CP) systems incorporating innovative technology. This paper will discuss the US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories’ (USACERL) development and implementation of new anode materials (Ceramic Coated Anode), advanced CP designs incorporating low maintenance technology, and assessment and field monitoring techniques (such as off-potential measurements), state of the art CP technology currently used by the Corps of Engineers will be compared with the technology used 50 years ago.

Subject
Electric current, Steel structures, Materials, Cathodic protection, Structures, Rods, Potential measurements, Impressed current anodes, Constants, Rectifiers, Ceramics, Impressed current, Anodes
Keywords:
Ceramic Coated Anode, Instant Off Potential (IOP), Low Maintenance, Waveform Analysis
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1993
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