Increasing the strength of cement and improving the corrosion resistance of rebar inside it using Fe2O3 nanoparticles

Subject Areas : Polymer

Fatemeh Abdi ¹ (Department of Engineering Sciences, Faculty of Advanced Technologies, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Namin, Iran)

Received: 2023-07-15 Accepted : 2023-07-15 Published : 2023-05-01

Keywords:

Abstract :

In this work, Fe2O3 nanoparticles were used to increase the cement strength and to increase the corrosion resistance of the rebar inside it. For this, the nanoparticles were added to the cement mortar with one percent of the cement weight. According to the ASTMC109 standard, bending and compressive strengths of 7 days and 28 days were obtained and compared with the control sample. The results showed that by adding this nanoparticle to cement, the bending and compressive strengths of cement mortar have been increased. To investigate the corrosion resistance of the rebar inside the cement mortar, polarization and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS)tests in 3.5% sodium chloride solution were measured and evaluated. The results of the polarization test showed that by adding this nanoparticle to cement mortar, the corrosion current decreases and the corrosion potential increases. EIS measurements confirmed the increased corrosion resistance of rebar inside the cement. Finally, the reason for increasing the corrosion resistance is investigated by equivalent circuit simulation.

References:

1. M. Mohamed, Journal of Nanomaterials, 20,19 (2019).
   2. S. Treerat, N. Jaitanong, S. Narksitipan., Key Engineering Materials,772, 95(2018).
   3. G. Ramasamy, S. Nithiyanantham, Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine,12, 348 (2020).
   4. L. Jintao, Construction and Building Materials, 217, 352 (2019).
   5. H. Elżbieta, Materials, 12, 326 (2019).
   6. E. Gerasimova, Procedia Engineering, 150, 1553 (2016).
   7. D. George, Molecules, 25, 5364 (2020).
   8. W. Li, H. Zhang, Y. Gao, Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 20,18(2018).
   9. L. Moutei, MATEC Web of Conferences:EDP Sciences, 149, 01055(2018).
   10. A. Nazari, Journal of American Science,6, 6 (2010).
   11. A. Nazari, S. Riahi , Sadhana, 36,371(2011).
   12. A. Nazari, S. Riahi , Materials Research ,13,485(2010).
   13. L. Guo, Construction and Building Materials, 201,623 (2019).
   14. M. Qinyong, Y.Zhu , Underground space, 2, 175(2017).
   15. Y. Jingwei, B. Zhou, J. Xiao, Construction and Building Materials,150,49, (2017).
   16. L. Qinghua, X. Gao, S. Xu, Cement and Concrete Composites , 72, 201 (2016).
   17. E. Hossein, M. Vaghefi, K. Kowsari, Procedia Materials Science, 11, 594 (2015).
   18. Z. Bingliu, Cement and Concrete Composites, 92, 7(2018).
   19. J. B.Wan, Ch. H. Kim, J. H. Lim, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 11, 37 (2007).
   20. W. Yansheng, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 140, 2225(2020).
   21. R. Prashanth, S. S. Selvan, M. Balasubramanian, Rasayan J. Chem, 12, 685(2019).
   22. L. Rui, Journal of Materials Science, 54, 444 (2019).
   23. P. Hosseini, A. Booshehrian, and A. Midair, Waste and Biomass Valorization, 2, 347(2011).
   24. S. Lok Pratap, International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials, 9, 207 (2015).
   25. M. Bashar, Case studies in construction materials, 8, 409(2018).
   26. Z. Chenglong, Y. Chen, Nanotechnology Reviews, 8, 562 (2019).
   27. L. Qingjie, Y. Chen, Ch. Liu, Nanotechnology Reviews, 8,600 (2019).
   28. H. Kang, Y. Chen,W. Xie., Nanotechnology Reviews, 8, 523 (2019).
   29. L.Min, H. Tan, X. He, Construction and Building Materials,194, 350(2019).
   30. S. Steve,F. Shaikh, Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology, 12, 178 (2014).
   31. F. Abdi Chinese Physics B, 30, 3 (2021).
   32. F. Abdi, H. Savaloni., Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc. China, 27, 701 (2017).