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Apr 1, 2014

Observation of suspended sea salt particles and its numerical simulation as estimation of corrosive environment

Kozo Kogaku Ronbunshu. A (Journal of Structural Engineering. A)
  • Makoto Obata
  • ,
  • Taro Murakami

Volume
60
Number
A
First page
596
Last page
604
Language
Japanese
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.11532/structcivil.60A.596
Publisher
Japan Society of Civil Engineers

It is important to estimate corrosion environment of steel bridges for an appropriate corrosion prevention and maintenance program. Estimation of environment has heavily depended on insitu observation and many data have been collected. However, versatile numerical approaches to this problem has not fully pursued yet. To this end, observation of airborne sea salt particles was performed with a standard low volume sampler (JIS Z 8814) beginning from April, 2013 to August, 2013 in the city of Nagoya and compared analytical estimation. A meso scale meteorological analysis employed here is WRF-Chem Ver. 3.4. Although WRF uses land use and terrain data based on USGS by default, the data is sometimes incorrect in Japan and yields inaccurate results especially for wind. Introduction of more accurate land use and geographic data supplied by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan improves accuracy of basic meteorological data and therefore concentration of airborne sea salt particles. Other factors affecting accuracy of airborne sea salt concentration will also be discussed.

Link information
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11532/structcivil.60A.596
CiNii Articles
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/130005438978
URL
http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/025756668
ID information
  • DOI : 10.11532/structcivil.60A.596
  • ISSN : 1881-6614
  • CiNii Articles ID : 130005438978

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