Sentence examples for the concrete environment from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, it was evident that Chloris truncata was better adapted to the concrete environment than the other two tested grass species.

Durability and long-term performance were assessed by conditioning the BFRP bars in an alkaline solution simulating the concrete environment (up to 3000 h at 60 °C) to determine their suitability as internal reinforcement for concrete elements.

Moreover, the degeneration of the mechanical properties of optical glass fibre sensors and hence their long-term stability and reliability due to the mechanical and chemical impact of the concrete environment is discussed as well as the advantage of applying a fibre optic sensor system for the structural health monitoring of sewerage tunnels is demonstrated.

GFRP bars were proved to be a durable face to the concrete environment and it was shown that the service lifetime allowed to reach tensile strength retention of less than 50% should be infinite (Robert et al. 2009; CSA S6-06 2006) which also supported the findings of Mufti et al. (2007) who tested few GFRP reinforced structures after up to 9 years in service conditions.

While, there is little literature about the electrochemical and passive behavior of ferritic stainless steel in the concrete environments.

Even in the most concrete environment, teach them to look for the trees forcing their way through the steel and cement barriers, adding a little green beauty.

It aimed to determine the feasibility of an integration of vegetation and concrete for use in slope protection, more specifically, explored the effect of a concrete environment on the following Australian native grass species: Themeda trianda, Chloris truncata and Elymus scaber.

The paper investigated the effect of alkaline concrete environment on thermally damaged glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) reinforcing bars through an accelerated aging test in alkaline solution.

Electrochemical behavior of the coated rebars in simulated concrete environment was influenced by the pH of the concrete pore solution and the 'P' content in the coating.

Results obtained indicate that the protection system for the sensors performs adequately in concrete environment and there is very good correlation between results obtained by the protected fibre optic sensors and conventional electrical resistance strain gauges.

However, much more efforts should be paid to develop low-cost, robustness and long-term reliable Cl− selective sensors in order to achieve the wide application in concrete environment.