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  1. ticas

    Best Waterproof for Concrete Roof

    deck is structural concrete, 4 inches slab with average span of 3 meters. There are drainage holes at the edge of the roof. Waterproof required to prevent water or moisture from seeping down the concrete roof. No equipments on roof. Since it's a roofdeck with 100 psf live load, it can support...
  2. ticas

    Best Waterproof for Concrete Roof

    What is the best waterproof material/method to be used on a concrete roofdeck? What is the latest and which do you recommended? Pro and Con? Thanks.
  3. ticas

    old concrete and hydration

    But you stated earlier that "There will be unhydrated cement particles that remain in the concrete after initial curing. If you re-wet the concrete, some of these will hydrate, but they will have little effect on the strength. With hydration though, the durability will improve." And above you...
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    old concrete and hydration

    We always read how strength gain increases through the years and that is why the concrete foundation constantly wet or exposed to water is much stronger (at least not enough to cause heaving or foundation damage from water freezing and expanding or bar corrosions). Is a myth since you said water...
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    old concrete and hydration

    But when you re-wet the concrete months later, it will just be the surface (let's say bare) that gets wet. How would that affect the concrete particles many inches inside the center of a beam for instance Remember you just wet the surface. And I don't think it would be permeable enough to get...
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    old concrete and hydration

    It is recommended to add water to fresh concrete for 7 days to keep it moist and effect good curing. What if it's not done. Can one add water to the concrete 2 months later to continue the chemical reactions that could have stopped because of insufficient water during the 7 days curing period...
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    Removal of Structural Epoxy

    There is still load. Imagine you are repairing the column of the ground floor of a 10-storey building, the load of the column below is the axial load of all the columns above. Even if all the floor beams above are shored, the weight still goes to the column of each floor and the column below is...
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    Removal of Structural Epoxy

    I'll shore everything. But if eccentric loading in column with only bars remaining can bend, then I'd put 3 times more shore to be sure. Massive amount of shores have to be ordered so I need to know this single fact. Someone wrote in other thread that a column with only bars is equal to no...
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    Removal of Structural Epoxy

    If vertical one foot concrete is removed and only bars remaining, and the loading is eccentric at one side of the column. Do you think it's possible the bars can bend to the heavier side? The moment of inertia of just bars are very low and moment magnificant factor can reach 2 even with just 5%...
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    Removal of Structural Epoxy

    I need to remove a section of epoxy from a column and need feedback from those with experience. Epoxy seem to drill softer than concrete. Is it normal? This means one can just drill it around rebars to separate the epoxy from bars? What else do you suggest? Picture of the column with epoxy is...
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    Epoxy Modulus and Creep

    Ok. I will. But some structural engineers I asked forgot about strain compatibility as they only work mainly with rebars and concrete and not composite and haven't come across what I experience. So I need to look for expert in repair. In my school. I remembered the purpose of rebar is to...
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    Epoxy Modulus and Creep

    I want to compute the different percentages of axial load (factored and nomimal) (by 15% increment) and gauge the deformation length of the epoxy and concrete so as to estimate the crack potential in order to can decide on very expensive process of breaking the epoxy apart and the concrete and...
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    Epoxy Modulus and Creep

    I just need to know how epoxy interacts with concrete when portions of them added together. When I know how. Then I'll calculate based on the actual geometry and configuration. If anyone has already thought of this.. how the tension in epoxy would affect the surrounding concrete... like would...
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    Epoxy Modulus and Creep

    http://www.pbase.com/ticaslogos/image/149352082 column damage before epoxy http://www.pbase.com/ticaslogos/image/149352114 column damage after epoxy Ron. I didn't show the larger picture. It's actually worse. See above picture where 4 bars in front are exposed with about 2 inch space behind...
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    Epoxy Modulus and Creep

    http://www.pbase.com/ticaslogos/image/149351058/original See the above picture.. a corner of a column was hit by a truck. We removed the broken concrete with a rebar exposed at the corner (the rest is perfectly fine as numerous test by engineers have confirmed so this is not a concern in this...
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    Epoxy Modulus and Creep

    Ron. Of course I know epoxy can't take all the load. Of course. Let's say it's tensile load is only 5000 psi. When tension reaches above 5000 psi for that section, steel with much higher 60,000 psi would take over. What I meant was even if it's concrete or epoxy.. steel will be the final...
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    Epoxy Modulus and Creep

    So what if epoxy can't transfer its load to rebars more efficiently than concrete. Since epoxy has very ductile failure mode, it can take the load itself. What's the problem with it? Also how thin is "thin section" interfacing with concrete and/or rebar, what if its 2 inches?
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    Epoxy Modulus and Creep

    Something I don't quite get even after reading the following portion many times (see My questions below) http://mmgrouting.com/foundation.htm "Epoxy grouts cannot be reinforced with rebar like cementitious materials because of the differences in the thermal coefficient of expansion and modulus...
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    light load & 3000 psi

    Imagine you have a vertical column and all the loads (beam) are in the right side (eccentric column), the vertical half of the column facing the right side is in compression, the vertical half of the column facing (or left) outside is in tension, does anyone here design column with more...
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    light load & 3000 psi

    3000 psi means concrete has compressive strength of 3000 psi. What if the load is very light, like using only the concrete 200 psi. As the load gets heavier, would the column compresses more (and shorten in length in say very tiny 0.001 mm)? Or is there no change in concrete column length due to...

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