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2011-11-01

MÖSSBAUER AND XRD ANALYSIS OF CORROSION PRODUCTS OF CARBONATED ALKALI-ACTIVATED SLAG REINFORCED CONCRETES

Palabras clave:

carbonation, corrosion, magnetite, wuestite, alkali-activated cement, Portland cement, steel reinforcement (es)

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  • WILLIAN APERADOR PhD. Profesor: Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. Bogotá, Colombia
  • JORGE BAUTISTA MSc. Profesor: Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cúcuta, Colombia
  • ENRIQUE VERA PhD. Profesor: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja.
Steel bars embedded in an alkali-activated slag (AAS) concrete have been exposed (after curing for 28 days) to an accelerated carbonation chamber (3 % CO2, 65 % relative humidity (RH), and 25 ºC temperature) and to a laboratory environment (0.03 % CO2, 65 %RH, and 25 ºC). Ordinary Portland cement (OPC) was also tested for comparative purposes and exposed to identical experimental conditions.Corrosion products generated at the steel/concrete interface were characterized using Mössbauer spectrometry and the X-ray diffraction(XRD) technique. The main compounds were magnetite (Fe3O4), wuestite (FeO), and goethite (a-FeOOH). The morphology of corrosionproducts was analyzed using the scanning electron microscopy technique (SEM).

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