In olden days reinforcing bars in concrete are not got
rusted even till now. But recently provided steel getting
rusted in concrete.
what are the probable reasons?

Answer Posted / koushik

in olden days the sections were huge and cover to the
reinforcement was much high......but now sections becoming
tooo slender and min cover is being provided.so this may b
one of the reason for the early deterioration of steel.

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