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Concrete Corrosion Characterization Using Advanced Microscopic and Spectroscopic Techniques

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Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of Concrete Sewers

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The aim of this chapter is to give an overview of basic and advanced state-of-the-art microstructural and spectroscopic analytics to investigate inorganic material corrosion in the context of biochemically aggressive sewers. The chapter covers optical methods, electron beam, X-ray and neutron techniques (SEM, MLA, XRF, XRD, CT, Neutron radiography and tomography), and spectroscopic methods (MAS-NMR, FT-IR, and Raman). For each technique, a short section on the fundamental scientific background of the method precedes and examples of data output from the latter in respect to the corrosion of cementitious materials including reinforced concrete is presented.

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Mittermayr, F., Gluth, G.J.G., Grengg, C., Garbe, U., Jiang, G. (2023). Concrete Corrosion Characterization Using Advanced Microscopic and Spectroscopic Techniques. In: Jiang, G. (eds) Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of Concrete Sewers . Engineering Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29941-4_4

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