carbonic gas randomness effect on reinforced concrete carbonation碳酸气体对钢筋混凝土碳化随机性的影响.pdfVIP

Engineering, 2012, 4, 6-10 /10.4236/eng.2012.41002 Published Online January 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/eng) Carbonic Gas Randomness Effect on Reinforced Concrete Carbonation 1* 2 3 Azhar Badaoui , M’hammed Badaoui , Fattoum Kharchi 1Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Travaux Publics, Cité Sidi Garidi Kouba, Algiers, Algeria 2FEHR Technologies Les Teppes, Chateauneuf-Sur-Isere, France 3Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumedienne, Laboratoire Bâti dans l’Environnement, Algiers, Algeria * Email: azharbadaoui@yahoo.fr Received October 4, 2011; revised November 4, 2011; accepted November 15, 2011 ABSTRACT This paper deals the randomness effect of the pressure of carbonic gas on the carbonation phenomenon of the reinforced concrete. This analysis concentrates on the evaluation of carbonation depth (X ) and the carbonation time (T ) which is c 1 the time necessary so that the face of carbonation arrives until the reinforcement from a probabilistic analysis. Monte Carlo simulations are realized under the assumption that the carbonic gas on the surface of the concrete is random vari- able with a log-normal probability distribution. Keywords: Carbonation Depth; Carbonation Time; Lognormal Random Variable; Carbonic Gas CO2 ; Relative Humidity; Water/Cement Ratio 1. Introduction sidered but its influence is ex