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Wilfried PILLARD: Technical Manager EGF.BTP
INTRODUCTION
This fourth article deals with concreting operations carried out under special conditions and to meet specific specifications:
spray-applied concretes on new sites (tunnel galleries or rock wall reinforcement), or on repair sites (buildings, engineering structures or technical galleries);
common concretes used in severe climatic conditions (hot or cold);
mass-cast concretes (parts of structures or dams);
concrete placed in water;
and the special technique of improved concrete using vacuum dewatering.
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Bibliography
Standards and norms
- Repair and reinforcement of concrete and masonry structures – shotcrete. - NF P 95-102 -
- Project concrete – Part 1: Definitions, specifications and compliance. - NF EN 14487-1 -
- Shotcrete – Part 2: Execution. - NF EN 14487-2 -
- Shotcrete tests – Part 1: sampling of fresh and hardened concrete. - NF EN 14488-1 -
- Shotcrete tests – Part 2: early age compressive strength of shotcrete. -...
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ASQUAPRO – Association for the quality of concrete spraying
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