Acknowledgements
Summary
Resumen
Contents
Notation
1. Introduction
1.1. Background
1.2. RC deterioration due to corrosion and fatigue
1.3. Research objectives
1.4. Thesis organization
2. Effect of corrosion-fatigue on the deterioration of Reinforced concrete
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Life-cycle of RC structures subjected to corrosion and fatigue
2.3. Chloride ingress into concrete
2.3.1. Chloride penetration in saturated concrete
2.3.2. Chloride penetration in unsaturated concrete
2.4. Corrosion of reinforcement
2.4.1. Principles of reinforcement corrosion
2.4.2. Time to corrosion initiation
2.4.3. Reduction of the reinforcement cross-section caused by corrosion
2.4.4. Corrosion rate
2.5. Concrete cracking
2.6. Corrosion-fatigue of reinforcing bars
2.6.1. Basics of fatigue
2.6.2. Principles of corrosion-fatigue
2.6.3. Corrosion-fatigue in RC structures
2.7. Summary and Discussion
2.8. Conclusions
3. Proposed model of corrosion and fatigue
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Model of time to corrosion initiation
3.2.1. Chloride flow in unsaturated conditions
3.2.2. Numerical solution of the governing equations
3.2.3. Model verification
3.3. Interaction between corrosion and concrete cracking
3.3.1. Model of corrosion rate
3.3.2. Concrete cracking
3.3.3. Coupling between concrete cracking and corrosion rate
3.4. Proposed model of corrosion, concrete cracking and fatigue
3.4.1. Corrosion initiation and pit nucleation
3.4.2. Pit-to-crack transition
3.4.3. Crack growth
3.5. Summary and conclusions
4. Stochastic corrosion fatigue-model
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Probabilistic framework for reliability analysis
4.2.1. Probability of corrosion initiation
4.2.2. Probability of failure
4.3. Time-invariant random variables
4.3.1. Basic concepts of random variables
4.3.2. Random variables related to chloride penetrat

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