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Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection  2018, Vol. 38 Issue (4): 343-350    DOI: 10.11902/1005.4537.2017.117
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Inhibition Effect of a New Composite Organic Inhibitor on Corrosion of Steel Rebar in Simulated Concrete Solution or Inside Mortar Specimen
Yunxiang CHEN1, Lijuan FENG2, Jianbin CAI1, Xuan WANG2, Yicheng HONG1, Deyuan LIN1, Jianhuang ZHUANG3, Huaiyu YANG2()
1 State Grid Fujian Electric Power Research Institute, Fuzhou 350007, China
2 Laboratory for Corrosion and Protection, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
3 State Grid Putian Electric Power Supply Company, Putian 351100, China
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Abstract  

The inhibition effect of a new composite organic inhibitor (named IMC-16) on the corrosion of steel rebar in simulated concrete solutions or inside mortar specimens was investigated by means of half-cell corrosion potential measurement, linear polarization measurement and electrochemical impendence spectroscopy respectively. For the comparison, the inhibition effect of a conventional inhibitor Ca(NO2)2 was also presented. Results indicate that whether in simulated concrete solutions or inside mortar specimens,for the case of blank, the corrosion potentials of steel rebar electrodes gradually reduced, while the corrosion current densities significantly increased, indicating that the passivity of steel rebar was deteriorated and the localized corrosion initiated on the surface of steel rebar electrodes due to the aggressive effect of chloride ions. However, after the addition of IMC-16 inhibitor, the corrosion potentials and the impedance modulus of steel rebar electrodes were obviously increased, the corrosion current densities and double layer capacitances largely decreased in comparison with those of blank, which reveal that the corrosion of steel rebar was well controlled, the composite organic inhibitor had excellent inhibition effect for the chloride-induced corrosion, and the onset time of steel rebar corrosion was effectively delayed. Dry and wet cycle experiments further show that Ca(NO2)2 could retard the steel rebar corrosion at the early stage of tests, but its inhibition performance was gradually decreased with the process of experiments. In comparison with Ca(NO2)2, although the inhibition effect of IMC-16 inhibitor was not enough to prevent the steel rebar from corrosion at the early stage of tests, but its inhibition effect and stability were much better than those of Ca(NO2)2 at the same concentration for long term.

Key words:  organic inhibitor      steel rebar corrosion      simulated concrete solution      mortar specimen      electrochemical technique     
Received:  19 July 2017     
ZTFLH:  TG174  
Fund: Supported by Project of State Grid Fujian Electric Power Research Insititute (SGTYHT/15-JS-194)

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Yunxiang CHEN, Lijuan FENG, Jianbin CAI, Xuan WANG, Yicheng HONG, Deyuan LIN, Jianhuang ZHUANG, Huaiyu YANG. Inhibition Effect of a New Composite Organic Inhibitor on Corrosion of Steel Rebar in Simulated Concrete Solution or Inside Mortar Specimen. Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection, 2018, 38(4): 343-350.

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Fig.1  Evolutions of corrosion potential (a) and corrosion current density (b) of the rebar electrode during immersion in Ca(OH)2 saturated 1.15%NaCl solutions without and with various inhibitors
Fig.2  Nyquist (a1~c1) and Bode (a2~c2) plots for the steel rebar electrode during immersion in simulated concrete solutions without (a1, a2) and with Ca(NO2)2 (b1, b2) and IMC-16 (c1, c2)
Fig.3  Equivalent circuit used to fit the EIS data
Fig.4  Time dependences of Rt (a), Cf (b) and Cdl (c) of the steel rebar electrode immersed in simulated concrete solutions without and with different inhibitors
Fig.5  Evolutions of corrosion potentials (a) and corrosion current densities (b) for steel rebar electrodes inside mortar specimens without and with various inhibitors with the cycle number of dry and wet tests
Fig.6  Surface morphologies of the steel rebar samples in the concrete blocks without and with different inhibitors after 60 wet and dry cycles: (a) blank, (b) Ca(NO2)2, (c) IMC-16
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