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Avalanches in concrete compression failure under sulfate attack

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Concrete is a typical porous heterogeneous material. Avalanches during concrete failure release acoustic emission (AE) signals. The statistical characteristics of avalanches of concrete compression failure under sulfate attack were investigated by AE. The distribution of absolute energy, amplitude, duration, and correlations between amplitudes and energies satisfied the power law. For the initial enhancement stage of sulfate attack, the values of the avalanche exponents closer to the mean field model prediction. For the subsequent deterioration stage, the values of the avalanche exponents closer to the force integrated mean field model prediction. The variations in the avalanche exponents corresponded to the variations in the mechanical properties and mesostructure of concrete under sulfate attack. Waiting time distribution and aftershock (AS) decay showed robustness during the sulfate attack. Avalanche characteristics can help to understand the failure mechanism of concrete under sulfate attack, and the exponents of avalanche distributions provide a new way to characterize the degree of corrosion.

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The authors thank the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51978078, 52204201, 51908088).

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YZ: Conceptualization, Writing—original draft. LW: Investigation. LZ: Funding acquisition, Formal analysis. XJ: Methodology. KZ: Data curation. All authors reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Zhao, Y., Wang, L., Zeng, L. et al. Avalanches in concrete compression failure under sulfate attack. Mater Struct 55, 249 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-022-02084-7

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