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The early deterioration of concrete structures due to the effects of external aggressive environment is well known. This paper presents cellular automata approach to the problem of lifetime assessment of concrete structures, particularly bridges, under the diffusive attack of external aggressive agents. The diffusion process is modeled by cellular automata technique as a 2D task describing more realistically the spatial variability of e.g. the chloride ingress within dynamic environment. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology arises from the transparent implementation yet complex behavior of two selected numerical case studies.
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Podroužek, J., Novák, D., Teplý, B., Vořechovská, D. (2008). Modeling of Environmental Effects on Bridge Components: Possibilities of Cellular Programming. In: Umeo, H., Morishita, S., Nishinari, K., Komatsuzaki, T., Bandini, S. (eds) Cellular Automata. ACRI 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5191. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79992-4_49
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