Assessment of Reasons behind and Level of Destruction of Aquatic Supports in a Hydraulic Ash Removal Bridge

Abstract

The presented article describes a case of damage to concrete in the aquatic supports of a hydraulic ash removal bridge in a power plant. Carrying out an assessment of the causes of concrete damage, as well as determining the possibility of the occurrence of corrosive phenomena within it, and thus, consequently, predicting the durability of the building structure and selecting, on its basis, a proper repair-renovation procedure, required a series of essential studies and analyses to be carried out. Therefore, in the analyzed case, a complex study was carried out on the structure as well as tests on samples of concrete cut out, in the form of core drillings, from the damaged structure (among others: macroscopic, microscopic SEM, XRD, DTA, chemical analyses). Based on these studies, the types of corrosion responsible for the analyzed damage were determined.