Carolyn Hansson
Professor
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Carolyn Hansson is a Professor in the department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and cross-appointed to the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She is the Associate Editor for Cement and Concrete Research, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the American Concrete Institute, Fellow of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (US), and Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK). Professor Hansson is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors of Acta Materialia and was appointed as Executive Secretary in 2014. Her research interests include durability of construction materials, corrosion and electrochemical techniques. Professor Hansson studies the corrosion of steel inside concrete, and techniques for measuring the amount of corrosion. These techniques include electrical metres that look for rust indirectly by measuring the current in the iron and acoustic monitors that listen for the ping of cables snapping within bridges. She is also studying rust-resistant reinforcing materials, such as stainless steel. This research is important to maintaining the integrity of structures.
Research Interest
Materials Science And Engineering Durability Of Materials Cement And Concrete
Publications
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Byfors K, Hansson CM, Tritthart J. Pore solution expression as a method to determine the influence of mineral additives on chloride binding. Cement and Concrete Research. 1986 Sep 1;16(5):760-70.
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Hansson CM. Comments on electrochemical measurements of the rate of corrosion of steel in concrete. Cement and Concrete Research. 1984 Jul 1;14(4):574-84.
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Hansson CM, Sørensen B. The threshold concentration of chloride in concrete for the initiation of reinforcement corrosion. InCorrosion rates of steel in concrete 1990 Jan. ASTM International.
