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Quantitative Non-Linear Effect of High Ambient Temperature on Chloride Threshold Value for Steel Reinforcement

Abdulrahman M Alhozaimy1, Mshtaq Ahmed2, Raja Rizwan Hussain1

  • 1Center of Excellence for Concrete Research and Testing (CoE-CRT), Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia.

Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
|December 24, 2021
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Keywords:
chloride threshold valueconcretecorrosionsteel reinforcement bartemperature

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