... and replacement with new reinforcing steel, new concrete to the original slab thickness and a waterproof membrane just below the wear surface. Although the replacement mat of steel was to be in new, uncontaminated concrete and the membrane would limit chloride contamination of the new concrete, most of the lower...

...galvanic corrosion CFRP Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics concrete relative humidity chloride contamination INTRODUCTION Pore water in concrete is alkaline typically with pH between 12.5 and 13.7. ^{1 - 2} This range of pH results in a low corrosion rate for steel because of passivity...