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Reinforced concrete service-life depends on a transport rate of corrosion stimulators, especially chlorides, towards the reinforcement through concrete cover layer. Traditional migration tests are able to state the effective diffusion coefficient; however they do not provide the information about the microstructure and its development in time. The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy was applied to study the microstructure of ultra-high performance concrete, ordinary Portland cement concrete and pore concrete. The porosity and electrochemical parameters were related to water and chloride permeability.
Keywords: EIS, UHPC, chloride diffusion, porosity© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.