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Bruno DUCROT: Engineer, École Centrale de Lyon - Consulting Engineer
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Bernard FARGEOT: Consulting Engineer
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Gérard MATHIEU: Research associate at Cemagref (Centre national du machinisme agricole du génie rural des Eaux et Forêts)
INTRODUCTION
Like any construction, concrete structures containing pure or contaminated water are not exempt from the general law of ageing. They inevitably suffer damage and deterioration, which must be remedied long before the threshold of a certain degree of decay is reached, rendering the structure unfit for its intended use.
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