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Their main goal is to ensure that the structure can resist mechanical and environmental loads and offer a satisfactory level of safety and serviceability. In the course of assessment, measuring the chloride content, through which corrosion could be anticipated and prevented, presents a possible alternative to visual inspections and corrosion tests that can only indicate already existing corrosion. It is hard to determine the cost-effectiveness and actual value of chloride content measurements in a simple and straightforward way. Thus, the main aim of the paper was to study the value of newly gained information, which is obtained when a chloride content in reinforced concrete bridges is measured. This value was here analyzed through the pre-posterior analysis of the cost of measurement and repair, taking into account different types of exposure and material properties for a general case. The research focus was set on the initiation phase in which there are no visible damages. A relative comparison of costs is presented, where the cost of possible reactive\/proactive repair was compared with the maximum cost of measurement, while the measurement is still cost effective. The analysis showed a high influence of the initial probability of depassivation on the maximum cost of the cost-effective measurement, as well as a nonreciprocal relation of the minimum cost of cost-effective reactive repair with the measurement accuracy.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/app10020567","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,15]],"date-time":"2020-01-15T03:20:22Z","timestamp":1579058422000},"page":"567","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Value of Information (VoI) for the Chloride Content in Reinforced Concrete Bridges"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0705-2538","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ivan","family":"Zambon","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bridge Construction, FCP Fritsch, Chiari &amp; Partner ZT GmbH, Marxergasse 1 B, 1030 Vienna, Austria"},{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering and Natural Hazards, Institute for Structural Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Peter-Jordan-Stra\u00dfe 82, A-1190 Vienna, Austria"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8456-7738","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Monica Patricia","family":"Santamaria Ariza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, Campus de Azurem, University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Jos\u00e9","family":"Campos e Matos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, Campus de Azurem, University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1674-7083","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alfred","family":"Strauss","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering and Natural Hazards, Institute for Structural Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Peter-Jordan-Stra\u00dfe 82, A-1190 Vienna, Austria"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"305","article-title":"Prediction of the remaining service life of existing concrete bridges in infrastructural networks based on carbonation and chloride ingress","volume":"21","author":"Zambon","year":"2018","journal-title":"Smart Struct. 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