Huaixiao Yan

1 INTRODUCTION Reinforced concrete (RC) structures are one of the most important components in civil engineering. However, the corrosion of traditional rebars in RC structures is a major area of interest within the field of structural durability because of the properties of steel. This corrosion impacts negatively a range of aspects, such as reduction of effective cross-sectional area, decrease in deformation capacity and volume expansion (Fernandez et al., 2015).

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