A double-cylinder model incorporating confinement effects for the analysis of corrosion-caused cover cracking in reinforced concrete structures

In this paper, a double-cylinder model with a consideration of concrete confinement effects is proposed to simulate reinforcement corrosion-caused cover cracking. The analytical model incorporates force equilibrium in both tangential and radial directions as well as volume expansion and deformation compatibility in the steel-rust-concrete interface. Confinement effects outside the cylinders are taken into account by comparing the numerical and...