• Bond strength of RC elements with consideration of corrosion: An experimental survey 

      Benenato, Armando; Ferracuti, Barbara; Imperatore, Stefania; Kioumarsi, Mahdi (AIP Conference Proceedings;Volume 2293, Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-25)
      The researches on the bond behavior of corroded reinforcements are finalized to the assessment of the structural serviceability loss, providing appropriate tools for the evaluation of the structural integrity, i.e. relation ...
    • Capacity of Concrete Structures with Corroded Reinforcement and Prestressing Tendons 

      Sigvaldsen, Marie; Ersdal, Gerhard; Markeset, Gro; Samarakoon, Mudiyansele Samindi Manjula K; Langeteig, Magne (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 1201, Third Conference of Computational Methods & Ocean Technology (COTech 2021), Stavanger, Norway and Second Conference of Oil & Gas Technologies in Cold Climate (OGTech 2021) 25th-26th November 2021, Moscow, Russia, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The main degradation mechanism for concrete structures is corrosion of the reinforcement and prestressing tendons. Management of structures with such degradation requires detailed understanding of their remaining strength ...
    • Damage assessment of RC bridges considering joint impact of corrosion and seismic loads: A systematic literature review 

      Mahboubi, Shima; Kioumarsi, Mahdi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper systematically reviewed 84 journal articles published from 2010 to 2020 and structured the reviewed literature using the following categories: year-wise number of research articles, journals, country, and ...
    • Durability of pretensioned concrete girders in coastal climate bridges: Basis for better maintenance and future design 

      Paciorek, Magdalena Jadwiga; Kanstad, Terje; Hendriks, Max; Hornbostel, Karla; Markeset, Gro (Structural Concrete;Volume 20, Issue 6, December 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-30)
      This study was based on findings from the Norwegian Public Roads Administration's Bridge Management System and field investigations on corrosion damage in pretensioned Norwegian standard I-beam (NIB) girders in 227 coastal ...
    • The effect of reinforcement corrosion on the structural behaviour of prestressed bridges in the Norwegian coastal regions 

      Paciorek, Magda; Kanstad, Terje; Hendriks, Max; Kioumarsi, Mahdi; Markeset, Gro (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Prestressed concrete (PC) is one of the main structural materials used in Norway for bridge structures. Prestressed and precast concrete beams were even used for building the historical Atlantic Road, which has the status ...
    • Effect of time dependent corrosion rate on residual capacity of corroded RC beam 

      Kioumarsi, Mahdi; Hajmohammadian Baghban, Mohammad; Imperatore, Stefania (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 652, Number 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Corrosion is the most commonly severe defect in reinforced concrete (RC) structures and it mainly causes reduced rebar cross-section. The corrosion rate is the determining parameter of the progress of corrosion-induced ...
    • Lateral displacement capacity of reinforced concrete elements damaged by corrosion 

      Imperatore, Stefania; Kioumarsi, Mahdi (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 652, Number 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The aim of this work is to evaluate the influence of corrosion on the lateral displacement capacity and on the global ductility of reinforced concrete (RC) elements, using finite element (FE) analysis. The corrosive ...
    • Prediction models for bond strength of steel reinforcement with consideration of corrosion 

      Ahmadi, Masoud; Kheyroddin, Ali; Kioumarsi, Mahdi (Materials Today: Proceedings;Volume 45, Part 6, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-02)
      Corrosion phenomena is one of the main deterioration causes, which remarkably affects the behavior of structural reinforced concrete (RC) members in seismic regions. Researches on reducing rehabilitation cost, performance ...
    • Seismic behavior of irregular RC-Frames damaged by corrosion 

      Imperatore, Stefania; Kioumarsi, Mahdi (Advances in Engineering Materials, Structures and Systems: Innovations, Mechanics and Applications;, Conference object, 2019-08-21)
      Reinforced Concrete (RC) structures frequently are deteriorated by corrosion attack where pitting morphology is the worst form of degradation. Appropriate vulnerability analyses, accounting for the variation of mechanical ...
    • Some remarks on the seismic assessment of RC frames affected by carbonation-induced corrosion of steel bars 

      Erduran, Emrah; Martinelli, Enzo (Proceedings of the fib Symposium;No. 52. Proc. of the 2nd CACRCS Workshop Capacity Assessment of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Structure, Dec. 1st to 4th, 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In Europe, a significant number of existing buildings have been built in the two decades following WW2 and, hence, they are often affected by degradation phenomena, which result in reducing the resisting sections of ...
    • Ultimate Flexural Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Elements Damaged by Corrosion 

      Bossio, Antonio; Imperatore, Stefania; Kioumarsi, Mahdi (Buildings;Volume 9, Issue 7, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-29)
      Worldwide, steel corrosion is one of the greatest deterioration problems for reinforced concrete structures. Comparing some experimental results from literature with a complex FEM model, the present paper points out the ...