Prediction of corrosion rate in reinforced concrete structures - A critical review and preliminary results

This paper presents a critical review of some of the available corrosion rate prediction models focusing mainly on chloride-induced corrosion. In addition to the proposals made for the improvement of these models, preliminary results of an ongoing study aimed at developing a chloride-induced corrosion rate prediction model using both natural and accelerated corrosion results are presented. Even though a reasonable correlation between natural and accelerated i _corr is presented here, more data are still required to ascertain the relationship.