Corrosion of the reinforcement is a common form of degradation of reinforced concrete structures. As a matter of fact the chemical attack varies the mechanical properties of both the steel rebars and concrete, and the bond characteristics. The study presented in the paper is mainly devoted to the analysis of the corrosion effects on the steel rebars and at the steelconcrete interface, and their influence on the local and global behaviour of simple R/C elements. At this aim, experimental analyses are developed, for the calibration of the constitutive relationships of both the steel rebars and the bond-slip response, in presence of corrosion. Finally the obtained laws are implemented in an analytical model, developed by the authors, in order to evaluate the influence of the corrosion on the global behaviour of simple R/C beam elements.