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The Impact of Corrosion on the Seismic Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Piers

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Reinforced Concrete (RC) bridges are a key elements for any transportation network, so that their safety and serviceability is of crucial importance especially after the occurrence of a seismic event. Frequently, RC bridges are exposed to the action of aggressive chemicals, such as in marine or in cold climate environments, for the presence of chloride ions, either due to the salty water or the use of deicing salt. Generally those aggressive environmental actions affect the steel rebars inducing corrosion phenomena with a degradation the mechanical properties of reinforcement. In this paper some modeling issues related to corroded RC piers are presented and discussed, with particular emphasis to their seismic assessment.

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  1. Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, 03043, Cassino, FR, Italy

    Alessandro Rasulo

  2. Department of Architecture, Roma Tre University, 00153, Roma, Italy

    Angelo Pelle, Davide Lavorato, Gabriele Fiorentino & Camillo Nuti

  3. Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00184, Rome, Italy

    Giuseppe Quaranta

  4. College of Civil Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350108, China

    Bruno Briseghella

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Rasulo, A. et al. (2021). The Impact of Corrosion on the Seismic Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Piers. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12950. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86960-1_56

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