The International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) have compiled a dedicated website to raise awareness of the life cycle cost advantages of stainless steel reinforcement bar. It provides answers to frequently asked technical questions.
Concrete structures like bridges and piers can often require costly renewal and maintenance after only a few decades of use. The reason is usually corroding steel reinforcement. It makes the concrete crack and spall of, a process that causes the rebar to rust even faster.
However, there is a cost-effective solution that makes concrete last one hundred years or more with little or no maintenance.
The extra initial investment is small compared with the savings on repair at a later point in time.
Numerous references available on the new site show how public and private investors have made use of stainless steel reinforcement to enhance the durability of their concrete structure.