The PROOVE´ it system is used to evaluate the resistance of concrete to the ingress of chloride ions in two ways:
By determining how easy it is to force chloride ions into saturated concrete by applying an electrical potential across a test specimen in accordance with AASHTO T 277 or ASTM C1202. This is known as the "Coulomb Test" or the "Rapid Chloride Permeability Test (RCPT)."
By measuring the penetration depth of chloride ions, after an electric potential has been applied to the specimen in accordance with NORDTEST BUILD 492 (Chloride Migration Coefficient from Non-Steady State Migration Experiments) to determine the "Chloride Migration Coefficient," which can be used to estimate the chloride diffusion coefficient for service life calculations.
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