No. 57. of the Capacity Assessment of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Structures - Books of abstracts for the CACRCS Days 2020. November 30 - December 03, 2021 - Online event PDF format Edited by: Beatrice Beletti, Dario Coronelli

This volume contains the extended abstracts presented at the online workshop “Capacity Assessment of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Structures – CACRCS Days 2021.” The event was co-organised by CTE – Collegio Tecnici dell’Industrializzazione Edilizia and fib – the International Federation for Structural Concrete, and was supported by AICAP – Associazione Italiana Calcestruzzo Armato e Precompresso, AIM – Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia, ReLUIS – Consorzio della Rete dei Laboratori Universitari di Ingegneria Sismica e Strutturale, Università degli Studi di Parma, Politecnico di Milano, and fib Italy Young Members Group. Special thanks are extended to Lorenzo Franceschini, Marta Del Zoppo, and Marco Rampini—members of the fib Italy Young Members Group—who assisted in the organisation of the event. The support of the sponsors Bekaert and Master Builders Solutions is also gratefully acknowledged.

The workshop was organised thanks to the contribution of the members of the Organising and Scientific Committees, representing different countries and institutions, including universities, research centres, and private engineering consultancies.

The CACRCS Days 2021 workshop was oriented from research towards practical engineering applications, with a focus on structural assessment methodologies. Two round tables were organised to promote live discussion and debate on open issues: the first, chaired by Jesús Rodríguez, addressed pre-normative and normative developments, while the second, chaired by Joost Walraven, focused on technical gaps in the structural evaluation of corroded concrete structures.

Since 2019, the workshop has gathered experts in the field of capacity assessment of corroded reinforced concrete structures. The contributions collected in this volume demonstrate that the CACRCS community is steadily developing and consolidating theoretical and experimental approaches aimed at supporting engineers and practitioners in decision-making processes related to the assessment and maintenance of existing structures.

The volume is subdivided into chapters according to the workshop programme, which correspond to the thematic sessions. Each chapter is introduced by two or three keynote lectures.