RAAC panels can suddenly collapse before any warning of corrosion-induced surface cracking
Thick-walled cylinder modelling in RAAC: The steel cross-section can be severly reduced by corrosion before any surface crack appears.
Paper
Evžen Korec, Peter Grassl, Milan Jirásek, Hong S. Wong, Emilio Martínez-Pañeda. "RAAC panels can suddenly collapse before any warning of corrosion-induced surface cracking".
npj Materials Degradation, vol. 9, pp. 44, 2025.
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