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To evaluate the effect of pulse parameters on the formation of electrodeposits in concrete cracks, five different types of pulse current were set up, and ZnSO4 and MgSO4 solutions were used as the electrolytes. The rate of weight gain, rate of surface coating, rate of crack closure and crack filling depth were measured. Scanning electron microscopy was used to assess the morphology of the electrodeposits, and energy dispersive spectroscopy was used to analyze the mineral composition of the electrodeposits in the cracks. The experimental results demonstrate that, among five different pulse parameters, when Ton/Toff=0.8 ms/0.8 ms, the healing effect of electro-deposition is the best. The pulse mode hardly affects the mineral composition of the electrodeposits but changes the micromorphology. In addition, for both ZnSO4 and MgSO4 solutions, when Ton/Toff=0.8 ms/0.8 ms, the crystal structure of the electrodeposits is the most uniform and the densest.
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Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation (Nos. 51479051, 51778209, 51609075, and 51508158), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2016B08414), and the National Key R&D Program of China (Nos.2016YFC0401610 and 2016YFC0401804)
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Chu, H., Wang, T., Jiang, L. et al. Effect of Pulse Parameters on Deposition in Concrete Crack using Pulse Current Electro-deposition. J. Wuhan Univ. Technol.-Mat. Sci. Edit. 33, 908–914 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-018-1912-y
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