Outokumpu will launch a report which, they commissioned from Arup Materials Consulting concrete expert Bryan Marsh, at this week's Bridges Conference in Abu Dhabi.

The report considers how predictive modelling assists the selective use of Stainless Steel Reinforcement Bar (SSR) in concrete structures exposed to corrosive environments.

Murray Adair, Outokumpu’s Rebar Product Manager, tells:

- It has been quite clear to me that where SSR has been used on the world major projects it has been specified with the use of predictive modelling and where it hasn’t been used there is not the same awareness of this advance in understanding. This report, a critique by Bryan, is an important step forward in widening awareness of application of the wonderful technology that SSR brings to the issue of corrosion of reinforcement in concrete.

The report is available from Outokumpu Stainless Rebar pages and is accompanied by the “Simple Representative Model (SRM)” which is an Excel Spreadsheet designed to illustrate the main points of the report.

Adair recently presented a paper on the corrosion resistance of stainless steels in simulated concrete pore solutions.  

- The literary research and testing program being carried out by Sara Randstrom, at our world renown research centre in Avesta, Sweden, marks an important step in helping our customers understand how to specify SSR economically, Adair says.

The use of stainless steel as reinforcement in concrete marks an important advance in tackling the billions of Euros annual cost of corrosion of carbon steel in concrete structures. Read more about SSR at www.outokumpu.com/SSR