The size effect in corrosion greatly influences the predicted life span of concrete infrastructures (3 of 3) (IMAGE)

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The size effect in corrosion greatly influences the predicted life span of concrete infrastructures (3 of 3)

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Example of corroding infrastructure exposed in corrosive environment (deicing road salt in Alpine climate). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 4, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by U.M. Angst at ETH Zürich in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, 'The size effect in corrosion greatly influences the predicted life span of concrete infrastructures.'

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[Credit: Courtesy of Prof. Dr. Ueli M. Angst, ETH Zurich, Switzerland]

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