Concrete curing room
Concrete curing room
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I'm working in a design and construction of a curing room. My question is, the possibly materials are going to be CMU and reinforced concrete floor, columns and roof, do the surfaces of the room have to have any special paint or is better let it unpaint (plastered). My concern is with the corrosion of the rebars.
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I'm working in a design and construction of a curing room. My question is, the possibly materials are going to be CMU and reinforced concrete floor, columns and roof, do the surfaces of the room have to have any special paint or is better let it unpaint (plastered). My concern is with the corrosion of the rebars.
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RE: Concrete curing room
The roof can be either concrete or it can be marine plywood. I've done both. They both work fine.
I have found that a rectangular room is more efficient for storage than a square room. Make it big enough that you can also put a couple of small tanks in the room so that you can submerge and condition certain types of samples (cubes, small cylinders for grout, etc.).
It is most important that your temperature control and humidity control be carefully done.
RE: Concrete curing room
The climate in the area where the room is going to be located is very hot, I was thinking in use 6" thick CMU, Do you think that this wall thickness will be enough or I need to use more thickness to mantain the temperature more easily inside the room.
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RE: Concrete curing room
It sounds like your problem won't be heating, but cooling. Make sure your AC unit is outside the room and does not dehumidify in any way.
That's a huge curing room. How many specimens do you test per day?
RE: Concrete curing room
I got a little experience with controlled temparature curing but not at this big scale, most with curing tanks.
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Any other idea of how to mantain the relative humidity-temperature parameters?
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RE: Concrete curing room
In the moisture rooms I've designed and built, the temperatures were similar. I used both.