Corrosion Analysis Using BEM by Considering Polarization Curve of Metal

Syarizal Fonnaa,b, M. Ridhab, S. Huznib, Israrb and A. K. Ariffina

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering National University of Malaysia b Department of Mechanical Engineering, Syiah Kuala University Banda Aceh, Indonesia
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Abstract
The corrosion of the structures is needed to be detected early to prevent a severe damage of failure such as the collapse of buildings and bridges. The conventional technique such as potential mapping for diagnosing of reinforced concrete corrosion structure has been used widely in the field. However, the method still has limitation such as less accuracy, laborious and time-consuming. This study is conducted to develop boundary element code by considering polarization curves of anode and cathode for corrosion analysis. In this method, the potential in the concrete domain was modeled by Laplaces equation. The anode and cathode areas were represented by each polarization curves. The potential and current density are obtained by solving the Laplaces equation using boundary element method (BEM). The study shows that the boundary element method successfully solved the Laplaces equation in order to obtain potential and current density values on domain surface. The simulation results give a good agreement with the reference which is has simulation and experimental data

Keywords: Corrosion, BEM, polarization curve, potential, current density