@EdStainless, thank you for your responses. They have been very helpful. I think im just going to pour the concrete, put power on the rebars and measure the current to see what current I will get and after some time will check if corrosion occured on the rebar.
@EdStainless, What are the ranges of current that induce corrosion modes that would never happen in nature? I was thinking of using a current between 0,5 and 2 amps. Thank you for your explanation about the pH value.
@EdStainless, will a high current make a difference or will there still be no corrosion seen in short term? And how does pH prevent corrosion? I thought it only de-accelerates when the pH increases and accelerates when the pH decreases.
@EdStainless, Thank you for your response. So what you are saying is that in figure 1 I should only connect the negative side of my power supply to the bottom rebar? If so, can i expect much corrosion if I put power on the rebars, one day after pouring mortar around the reabrs? The resistance of...
@EDStainless, Why is the rebar not the anode in the figures i showed?
@stevenal, The voltage scource has an internal resistance that prevents this.
Sorry for my late responses, I was on a holiday.
@Dhurjati Sen, I've made the setup but the concrete is still drying out. I will try start testing before christmas.
@EdStainless, the electrolyte will be concrete.
@Sjones, So because the current will be completely confined to a metallic circuit, I should expect that no corrosion will occur?
Thank you all for the answers, as you said @IRstuff I completely forgot about the internal resistance so I got absurd results from my simulations (I've made other simulations aswell but this was just an example for the problem). Thank you for correcting me.
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In my education I've had basic electronics. But there is 1 thing I never understood. If i have a voltage source, let's say 5 volt, and I connect a steel or coper wire directly from the plus to the minus, what will happen? Because if u calculate the resistance of the wire its...
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I am working on a project on which there is a possibility that stray current will occur. I know what stray current corrosion is in general, but I don't know why and when it occurs. Therefore I've made 3 setups which I may test to see if i can make a representation of my project. In...
