Durability Design of Concrete Structures





Preface

Control of the durability of concrete structures has gained increasing importance at the design and maintenance stages of thesestructures. Most of

the current durability problems of concrete structures in, for example, bridges, dams and

façades of buildings could have been avoided with systematic durability design. Such design,

however, requires both an overall methodology and detailed calculation models of actual

deterioration processes. Safety requirements and margins must be defined for service life. This

report represents the first systematic attempt to introduce into structural design both a general

theory of structural reliability and existing calculation models for the commonest degradation processes.



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