A Preliminary Study on Cathodic Prevention in Reinforced Mortar

摘要

Well known is that chloride-induced localized corrosion of the embedded steel is one of the most hazardous types of corrosion in reinforced concrete (1,2). Cathodic protection (CP) is one of the electrochemical techniques, used for corrosion protection in reinforced concrete (3-10). The widespread use of CP is well established, some developments in the field have been reported elsewhere (5, 7). The application of CP however is accompanied by negative side effects (e.g. alkali-silica reaction, bond strength degradation, etc.), some of them reviewed in (3,7).