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Conformity control is often applied on concrete compressive strength in order to safeguard the quality of produced concrete lots. Conformity criteria are mostly characterized by an operating characteristic curve, indicating the probability of acceptance in relation to a concrete lot with a specific quality. By applying this conformity control, certain lots of concrete are accepted and others are rejected. This induces a filtering effect, leading to an effect on the failure probability as a result of the quantitative quality control process.
For durability criteria, often limiting bounds for durability related properties are proposed. Specifying conformity criteria for example to the diffusion coefficient of the concrete can enable to safeguard the quality of concrete products in relation to durability properties. Also this type of conformity control has a filtering effect, i.e. on the distribution of the diffusion coefficient, resulting in a lower mean value and standard deviation, influencing consequently the service life. This paper investigates for the first time the effect of conformity criteria for diffusion coefficients as well their effect on the service life of concrete elements.
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Vereecken, E., Botte, W., Caspeele, R. (2022). Development of Conformity Criteria for Diffusion Coefficients of Concrete and Their Influence on the Service Life of Reinforced Concrete Structures. In: Pellegrino, C., Faleschini, F., Zanini, M.A., Matos, J.C., Casas, J.R., Strauss, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the European Association on Quality Control of Bridges and Structures. EUROSTRUCT 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91877-4_26
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