Abstract:The effectiveness of six amine based inhibitors, i.e. triethylentetramine, dimethylamine, N,N dimethylethanolamine, ethanolamine, 1,6 hexanediamine,guanidine, in preventing carbon steel chloride induced corrosion in chloride contaminated simulated concrete pore solutions was investgated. Corrosion behaviors of steel in different solutions were observed by means of electrochemical potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy(EIS). The results show that the effectiveness of amine based inhibitors is related to the pH value of the solution, inhibitors concentrations and chloride ion concentrations. The results indicate that, the drop of pH value and the increase of chloride ion concentration would result in the decline of corrosion resistance of reinforced steel in the solution with same inhibitors concentration. At same inhibitors concentration and chloride ion concentration, different amine based inhibitors have different inhibiting effect in preventing carbon steel chloride induced corrosion. In case of pH=1250, when the concentration ratio of amine based inhibitors and Cl- is close to 1, triethylentetramine, dimethylamine, 1,6 hexanediamine and guanidine clearly delay the start of corrosion, N,N dimethylethanolamine and ethanolamine have little effect on the steel. Hence amines based inhibitors, triethylentetramine, dimethylamine, 1,6 hexanediamine and guanidine can be used as corrosion inhibitors for electrochemical injection in chloride polluted concrete.