Prediction Methodology for the Service Life of Concrete Structures in Marine Environment: From Materials to Performance

Taotao Feng , Yanchun Miao , Yongshan Tan , Zhiqiang Yang , Tongning Cao , Fengjuan Wang , Jinyang Jiang

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Prediction Methodology for the Service Life of Concrete Structures in Marine Environment: From Materials to Performance

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The conventional method for analyzing the durability of concrete structures is complex and time-consuming. The values of durability parameters are closely linked with the specific mix proportions of concrete and its service environment. For a reliable service life assessment, it is crucial to accurately determine critical physical indicators within the design model, such as the chloride diffusion coefficient, the time-dependent index of chloride diffusion coefficient, and the critical chloride concentration. However, efficiently and reliably deriving these physical parameters remains a significant challenge. This study develops three-dimensional (3D) heterogeneous models of cement-based materials from the microscale to the mesoscale to quantitatively calculate the chloride diffusion coefficient of concrete at the macroscale. Then, a dataset containing more than 2000 groups of marine concrete was analyzed to reliably determine the values and distribution types of relevant durability parameters. Finally, service life evaluations based on the theoretical model of chloride diffusion and reliability theory are applied to the marine concrete structure in Northeast Asia. This methodology bypasses the lengthy process of conventional exposure testing, demonstrating enhanced efficiency and providing a novel approach to the durability assessment of concrete structures in the marine environment.

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Service life / Durability parameters / Chloride diffusion coefficient / Data set

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CRediT authorship contribution statement

Taotao Feng: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Methodology, Funding acquisition, Conceptualization. Yanchun Miao: Visualization, Validation, Software. Yongshan Tan: Writing – review & editing, Methodology, Investigation. Zhiqiang Yang: Validation, Formal analysis, Data curation. Tongning Cao: Validation, Software. Fengjuan Wang: Formal analysis, Data curation. Jinyang Jiang: Supervision, Funding acquisition, Conceptualization.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgements

The authors greatly acknowledge the financial support from the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (51925903), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province (2023JJF160002), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52308238), the National Postdoctoral Researcher Program of China (GZC20230439), the Excellent Postdoctoral Program of Jiangsu Province (2023ZB134), and the National Key R&D Program of China (2023YFB3711400).

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