This version is available at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/62274/ Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Unless otherwise explicitly stated on the manuscript, Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Please check the manuscript for details of any other licences that may have been applied. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or private study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to the Strathprints administrator: strathprints@strath.ac.ukThe Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. Concrete cover cracking caused by corrosion of reinforcement is one of major deterioration 11 mechanisms for reinforced concrete structures. In practice, time to surface cracking and crack 12 width evolution are of significance in regards to the assessment of serviceability of reinforced 13 concrete structures. Literature review suggests that, although considerable research has been 14 undertaken on corrosion-induced concrete cracking, little has been focused on corrosion of 15 multiple reinforcing bars, especially by considering the non-uniform corrosion process. In this 16paper, a time-dependent non-uniform corrosion model is established. A cohesive crack model 17 is then formulated to simulate arbitrary cracking in the whole cover of concrete structures. 18Two typical cover failure modes (i.e., "delamination" and "combined delamination and corner 19 spalling") have been simulated under the non-uniform corrosion of multiple reinforcing bars 20 and found dependent on spacing of reinforcement and fracture energy of concrete. The effects 21 of corrosion, geometric and mechanical parameters on the time to surface cracking after 22 corrosion initiation and the crack width evolution are also investigated and discussed. The 23 developed model is partially verified by comparing the results with those from experimental 24 tests on uniform corrosion of multiple reinforcing bars. 25