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Service life of reinforced concrete structures: New approach
The existing concepts about service life may be incomplete regarding those that must take into account the whole life cycle of a concrete structure. One of the reasons for this is the lack of certainty of the service life predictions which are based on models that take into account a mixture of stages. The life cycle of a structure has many similarities with that of a human being. In fact, it is no coincidence that engineering has adopted some terms from the medical sciences like 'pathology' to refer to structures with problems of 'health'. The objective of this paper is to discuss a new approach that takes into account the similarities among the several stages of service life of a human being and the concrete structures. The paper discusses the overlapping of the different life cycle stages as well as the reasons why the prediction models can fail.
Service life of reinforced concrete structures: New approach
The existing concepts about service life may be incomplete regarding those that must take into account the whole life cycle of a concrete structure. One of the reasons for this is the lack of certainty of the service life predictions which are based on models that take into account a mixture of stages. The life cycle of a structure has many similarities with that of a human being. In fact, it is no coincidence that engineering has adopted some terms from the medical sciences like 'pathology' to refer to structures with problems of 'health'. The objective of this paper is to discuss a new approach that takes into account the similarities among the several stages of service life of a human being and the concrete structures. The paper discusses the overlapping of the different life cycle stages as well as the reasons why the prediction models can fail.
Service life of reinforced concrete structures: New approach
Lebensdauer von Stahlbetonbauten: Neues Näherungsverfahren
Castro-Borges, P. (author) / Helene, P. (author)
2007
6 Seiten, 1 Bild, 5 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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