ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Spatial Time Dependent Reliability Analysis
of Carbonation with Climate Change
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Department of Civil Engineering, Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology, Madurai, India
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Department of Civil Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India
Submission date: 2020-02-19
Final revision date: 2020-03-16
Acceptance date: 2020-03-16
Online publication date: 2020-06-10
Publication date: 2020-08-05
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S.P. Murali Kannan
Department of Civil Engineering, Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology, Madurai, India
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2020;29(6):4123-4129
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The ambiance around the concrete structures could be affected by a dynamic climate, particularly
after a long time, results in declination of durability at a quicker rate. The increase in carbon dioxide
concentration and temperature can increase the carbonation depth of concrete. Carbonation-induced
corrosion of concrete structures in Bern and Seoul under a dynamic climate is investigated during
this work by considering high and medium greenhouse gas emissions scenarios RCP 8.5 and RCP
4.5 respectively. This analysis takes into account the effect of change in temperature, carbon dioxide
levels and relative humidity on diffusion coefficients considering relative humidity as a time-dependent
variable. This work also evaluates the failure probability of durability based on the reliability concept
by considering the coefficient of variation of carbonation depth and cover depth. Reliability index
of 1.28 which infers the probability of corrosion initiation less than 10% is used for inference.