ABSORPTION OF WATER AND CHLORIDE INTO CONCRETE

The theory of unsaturated flow in porous materials has been applied to the study of water penetration into concrete. This theory predicts th e classical relationship between the cumulative volume of water absorb ed and the square root of the elapsed time. In this Paper data are pre sented on both the volume of water absorbed and the depth of penetrati on of water, for a range of concrete mixes, as a function of time.