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Repairs to overcome low member strength
Need for Strengthening: · Load increases due to higher live loads, increased wheel loads, installations of…
Shoring and underpinning
The arrangement employed to prevent a damaged structure, due to either foundation settlement or other…
Mortar repair for cracks
Portland cement mortar may be used for repairing defects on surfaces not prominently exposed. where…
Gunite or Shotcrete
Gunite can be defined as mortar conveyed through a hose and pneumatically projected at a…
Vacuum Concrete
Vacuum Concrete It has been amply brought out in the earlier discussion that high water/cement…
Mortar and dry pack
Dry pack is a combination of Portland cement and sand passing a No. 16 sieve…
Fiber Reinforced Concrete
Plain concrete possess a very low tensile strength, limited ductility and little resistance to cracking,…
Ferro cement
Ferro cement technique, though of recent origin, have been extensively used in many countries, notably…
Sulphur Inflitrated Concrete
New types of composites have been produced by the recently developed techniques of impregnating porous…
Polymer concrete
Polymers are used in the production of 3 types of polymer concrete composites: polymer-impregnated concrete…