TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Kenneth L. Fishman A2 - Soheil Nazaria A2 - Shane Walker A2 - Arturo Bronson TI - Improved Test Methods and Practices for Characterizing Steel Corrosion Potential of Earthen Materials DO - 10.17226/25925 PY - 2020 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25925/improved-test-methods-and-practices-for-characterizing-steel-corrosion-potential-of-earthen-materials PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - Electrochemical properties of earthen materials such as electrical resistivity, pH, salt concentrations, and organic contents are commonly used to characterize the corrosion potential of buried metal elements that are in direct contact with the surrounding soil.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program'sNCHRP Research Report 958: Improved Test Methods and Practices for Characterizing Steel Corrosion Potential of Earthen Materials proposes a protocol describing best practices for sampling, testing, and characterizing the steel corrosion potential of earthen materials.The protocol incorporates alternatives to the current AASHTO test standards for measuring electrochemical properties. ER -