Many corroding interfaces exhibit electrochemical impedance response similar to that of a polarization resistance associated with the corrosion process, in parallel with a Constant Phase Angle Element (CPE) having relatively large admittance. Such conditions are often encountered
in the case of steel in concrete. While polarization measurements using a forward and reverse potential scan rate dV/dt can be helpful to subtract the contribution of an ideal interracial capacitance C by using a C dV/dt correction, in concrete the pronounced frequency dispersion of
the CPE complicates the time domain response and correction is not straightforward. A solution to the problem is presented in this paper and applied to evaluate the CPE parameters and estimate the polarization resistance of steel in concrete from cyclic-scan polarization
measurements. The technique is demonstrated for experiments with plain steel and galvanized rebar in concrete.
Keywords: concrete, corrosion, constant phase angle element, cyclic polarization, modeling, reinforcing steel.