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Recommendations of RILEM TC 178-TMC: 'Testing and modelling chloride penetration in concrete' Analysis of water soluble chloride content in concrete
Title: Recommendations of RILEM TC 178-TMC: 'Testing and modelling chloride penetration in concrete'
Analysis of water soluble chloride content in concrete
Author(s): RILEM TC 178-TMC
Paper category : journal
Serial title: Materials and Structures
Abreviated Serial title: Mater. Struct.
ISSN: 1359-5997
Publisher: RILEM Publications SARL
Volume: 35
Issue: 253
Issue date: 2002-11-01
Publication year: 2002
Pages: 586 - 588
Total Pages: 3
Nb references: 8
Language: English
As chloride ions in concrete are partially bound with
the solid phases,only the so-called free chlorides are a
risk of reinforcement corrosion.However there are
experimental difficulties of an accurate measurement of
either bound and free chlorides due to:a)their relation is
not constant as it evolves with time and temperature,
b)there are no reliable analytical methods of quantifica-
tion of bound chlorides.For free chlorides,it is generally
accepted that the squeezing of hardened pastes of
concretes gives the best approximation to the chloride
ionic concentration existing in capillary pores [1-5 ].Due
to the complexity of this technique,and to its difficulty
to be applied to concrete samples,methods based on
leaching have been tried [6,7 ].
The present recommendation is the result of a
Round Robin Test on chloride analysis in concrete,car-
ried out by the Technical Committee TC 178-TMC.A
total of 20 laboratories around the world have partici-
pated in this part of the RRT making a total of 37
determinations of free chlorides in triplicate specimens
for three different chloride concentrations.
Two different methods of extraction of water soluble
chlorides from the solid sample [6 ]and [7 ]were tested,
taking as the target values those obtained by squeezing the
powdered samples by applying high pressure.It was also
decided that other methods could also be used to the
choice of each laboratory.The complete recipes and all
the results including the statistical analysis can be found
in [8 ].As a final result,the two methods proposed were
considered to be a suitable reference for extracting water
soluble chlorides.However provided that the method
given in [6 ]is easier to perform,it has been considered
to take it as the reference method for extraction of free
chlorides,and is the only one described in the present
recommendation.Experimental description of the
leaching with alkaline water method can be found in [7 ].
Online publication: 2002-09-27
Classification: RILEM Technical Committees
Publication type : full_text
Public price (Euros): 0.00
doi: 10.1617/13841
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