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Chloride induced reinforcement corrosion: electrochemical monitoring of initiation stage and chloride threshold values
No full textReinforcement steel embedded in six different concrete mixes was exposed to chloride by wetting/drying cycles. Various parameters were continuously monitored during more than 1 year. Cement replacement with fly ash had beneficial long-term effects regarding chloride penetration resistance. Concerning corrosion performance, the by far most dominant influencing parameter was the steel/concrete interface since corrosion initiated on the lower side of the rebar (with respect to casting direction) regardless of binder type and w/b ratio. In many cases, after the first signs of depassivation, a marked increase in chloride content was required to prevent repassivation and to enable stable pit growth
Chloride induced reinforcement corrosion: rate limiting step of early pitting corrosion
No full textTransition from passive state to stable localised corrosion of reinforcement steel in concrete owing to chloride ingress takes place over a period of time rather than being a one-step-occurrence. The depassivation process was characterised by frequent measurements of corrosion potential, polarisation resistance, and macro-cell currents when short-circuiting the working electrode with additional cathode surface. In addition, the concrete resistivity was continuously monitored and cathodic and anodic polarisation curves were measured. The results are consistent and imply that the localised corrosion process is in the initial phase of pit growth under mixed anodic/ohmic control. With time, the anodic reaction kinetics become more limited and the corrosion rate gets almost entirely determined by anodic control. The observed relationship between achieved maximum corrosion current and concrete resistivity indicates that the extent to which the anodic reaction kinetics are restricted is determined by the concrete microstructure and its ability to retain ionic movement
Probabilistic considerations on the effect of specimen size on the critical chloride content in reinforced concrete
No full textA probabilistic model was used to predict the critical chloride content (Ccrit) for reinforcement corrosion
as a function of specimen size. The specimen size is likely to be a reason for the large scatter of Ccrit values
as well as for the high threshold levels often observed in laboratory setups. Regarding test methods, it is
discussed that the common combination of small specimens and low numbers of parallel samples results
in poor reproducibility. If experimental data is to be used for service life modelling, the geometrical
dimensions of the specimens on which Ccrit was measured have to be taken into account
Limitations of the use of concrete resistivity as an indicator for the rate of chloride-induced macro-cell corrosion
No full textAn experimental setup was designed to study the impact of concrete resistivity on the rate of chloride-induced reinforcement corrosion. Small pieces of mild steel were used to simulate pits (anodes) that form when chlorides come into contact with the reinforcement. The galvanic current was measured between the simulated anodes and a cathode network. Comparisons were made between the galvanic current and the concrete bulk resistivity. The bulk resistivity was varied using two mortar mixes (made of plain Portland cement and a blended Fly ash cement) which were exposed in different temperature and moisture conditions. Despite a high scatter in the results, it was clear that the relationship between bulk resistivity and corrosion rate depended on the mortars tested. The findings presented in this paper and the accompanying work strongly indicate that concrete bulk resistivity alone does not provide sufficient information for assessment of the corrosion rate for chloride-induced macro-cell corrosio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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