关键词：外加剂；氯化物；混凝土路面；钢铁
摘 要：Chloride ion ingress is an important parameter that helps estimate the durability and service life of reinforced concrete (RC) and prestress concrete (PC) structures, especially in those structures exposed to marine environments and salts applied during the winter season for traffic safety. Current techniques used to detect chloride content and monitor the level of corrosion in RC and PC structures, such as acoustic emission (AE), fiber optics, and electrochemical measurements, are time consuming, and invasive. In addition, they require external power sources, complex test setups, are expensive to implement, and often, it is difficult to interpret the data recorded in the field. In an effort to overcome these restrictions, an inexpensive, wireless corrosion detector sensor based on commercial radio frequency identification (RFID) technology that does not need to be powered by a local source of energy, has been developed by an Oklahoma State Universitys research team. The purpose of the first phase of this project was to implement this innovative RFID corrosion sensor into a new bridge construction to collect data during monitoring to study both the reliability and field performance of the sensor in-situ and under laboratory conditions. The laboratory work attempted to correlate the sensors sensitivity to the level of corrosion in the structure. Phase II of this work will be focused on the long-term monitoring of the sensors installed in the field for a period of approximately 10 years.