“…Fibre-reinforced polymer materials are used in the reinforcement and the repair of structures, and many independent studies have shown that these materials are impermeable to oxygen. These applications have been effective in the repair of corrosion damage since the mid1990s (Alampalli, 2001;Pantazopoulou et al, 2001;Debaiky, Green, and Hope, 2002;Sen, 2003;Wang and Shih, 2004;Badawi and Soudki, 2005;Suh et al, 2007Suh et al, , 2008Winters et al, 2008). Various studies have also shown that fibre-reinforced polymer materials do not prevent corrosion entirely, but reduce the corrosion rate considerably (Baiyasi and Harichandran, 2001;Berver et al, 2001;Wootton, Spainhour, and Yazdani, 2003;Wheat, Jirsa, and Fowler, 2005).…”