Bond Behaviors between Polymer Cement Coated Steel Bar Subjected to Environmental Action and Concrete

The bond behaviors (failure modes, bond strength, bond stress slip curves) between steel bars coated with polymer modified cement-based coating and concrete as well as effect of carbonation and chloride ingress on the bond behaviors were studied in this paper. Twenty-four concentrically reinforced concrete cubes were cast and pull-out tests under monotonic loading were carried out. The results indicated that the polymer modified cement-based coating can be well bonded with steel bar and the failure mode of all the specimens is splitting. The typical polymer cement-based coating could enhance the bond strength slightly of the uncoated steel bar with concrete in this experiments. But the bond strength were all depressed between the coated steel bars subjected to carbonation and chloride ingress and concrete.