The Addagrip 1000 System Resin has been specifically developed to treat frost damaged, spalled or smooth concrete airfield pavements, concrete roads, concrete ramps and steps.
A major problem with concrete is that deterioration is caused by latent defects, chemical attack and frost damage, which, over a period of time, causes the top of the concrete to break-down. This breakdown may cause a safety or FOD (Foreign Object Damage) problem requiring removal of the affected areas.
The Addagrip 1000 System Resin, applied directly onto the prepared concrete pavement, is designed to prevent further deterioration. Areas treated over the last twenty years at military and civil airfields have prolonged the life of the concrete pavement by an estimated 10-15 years.
Concrete Pavement Protection
Preparation
The surface preparation to the concrete surface is carried out by applying controlled hot compressed air. The Addagrip Hot Compressed Air System is a combination of propane gas and compressed air ignited in a chamber. The mixture burns at a temperature of approximately 1000°c, with the exhaust exiting the chamber at a rate of 350m per second.
As the heat blast comes into contact with the concrete pavement it causes any water, oil or liquid contaminants to vaporise from the top few millimetres. These evaporate from the surface and are blown away by the heat blast, leaving the surface capillary pores empty and open, ready to receive the Addagrip 1000 System Resin.
Application
Addagrip 1000 System Resin is applied directly onto the warm and dry prepared surface. As the concrete cools the Addagrip 1000 System Resin is drawn into the open and empty capillary pores. This penetration of resin, typically 2-3mm, will lock into the structure of the concrete preventing migration of moisture.
1000 System Resin should then be applied at a rate to be agreed as coverage rates will depend on the porosity, texture and size of the aggregate to be used. Application of the resin is by roller and squeegee or spray machine, to larger areas. The Resin should then be saturated with a washed, clean and dry aggregate.
Allow the resin to cure, approximately 8 hours at 15 °C.
Sweeping and/or vacuuming should then remove all excess aggregate.
Project reference sites:
RNAS Culdrose
RNAS Yeovilton
RAF St Mawgen
RAF Wittering
DERA Boscombe Down
RAF Odiham
RAF Cranwell
RAF Cottesmore
RAF Lakenheath
RAF Marham
Testing
Various independent tests confirming the suitability of the Addagrip 1000 System Resin for the treatment of damaged concrete pavements.
Click here for the results of these tests.
RAF Waddington
RAF Aldergrove
RAF Leuchars
RAF St Athan
London Gatwick Airport
London Heathrow Airport
Radom and Lask Airfields - Poland
Bodo Airport - Norway
Bergen Airport - Norway
For further information on any of the above sites please do not hesitate to contact us.
Overseas Agent:
Barbara Leksowska
AGISA sp. z o.o
Al. Wojska Polskiego 27/21
01-515 Warszawa
Poland
Tel/fax : + 48 22/ 839 83 69
Tel. + 41 22/ 869 99 22
Mobile : +48 600 229 232
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e-mail: agisa@astercity.net
Addagrip Surface Treatments UK Limited Addagrip House, Bell Lane Industrial Estate, Uckfield,East Sussex TN22 1QL, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)1825 761333 Fax: +44 (0)1825 768566
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