Abstract:
Systems and methods for treating concrete, which includes the steps of wetting a surface of concrete with colloidal silica, allowing time for the colloidal silica to penetrate the concrete surface, and cutting the surface of the concrete with a bladed or segmented tool wherein the longitudinal blade or edge portion is positioned approximately at an angle between 30 degrees and 90 degrees relative to the surface of the concrete.
Abstract:
An injection port for a spray gun includes a first end and a second end disposed opposite the first end along a longitudinal axis. The injection port also includes an interior passage extending between the first end and the second end along the longitudinal axis, and a plurality of blind bores disposed at the first end, each blind bore extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for treating concrete, which includes the steps of wetting a surface of concrete with colloidal silica, allowing time for the colloidal silica to penetrate the concrete surface, and cutting the surface of the concrete with a bladed or segmented tool wherein the longitudinal blade or edge portion is positioned approximately at an angle between 30 degrees and 90 degrees relative to the surface of the concrete.
Abstract:
An improved method of creating a waterproof seal for post tension cable systems roughens and decontaminates the cable's stressing end pocket with a diamond bladed reaming tool and closes the newly formed cavity with epoxy resin and a precasted plug made of non-shrink grout. The method includes pouring a concrete slab around an anchor and a pocket former through which a cable passes and is held by wedges. After the pocket former is removed and the cable is stressed, the cable is cut and a grease cap is applied. The system ensures that the cable is properly cut, the grease cap is properly seated, the inside of the pocket is roughened, and the seal at the cable's stressing end is waterproof. Furthermore, the invention aids in removing previously grouted pockets when cable remediation is needed and closing the pocket with a precasted plug when cable remediation is completed.
Abstract:
A concrete building structure and method for constructing a building structure which includes a first cross-brace section, including a plurality of pre-cast concrete blocks connected in series by at least one rebar; a second cross-brace section, including a plurality of pre-cast concrete blocks connected in series by at least one rebar, extending generally perpendicularly to the first cross-brace section such that the first and second cross-brace sections form a grid understructure; a plurality of channels encapsulating adjacent blocks from the first and second cross-brace sections, whereby the grid understructure includes channels into which concrete may be poured at a building site; each of the plurality of blocks positioned within respective channels; a plurality of pre-cast concrete slabs resting atop the blocks in the grid understructure; and poured concrete filling each of the channels and a space between adjacent concrete slabs to complete a generally flat floor of the building structure.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to improvements to building construction. Particularly, the present invention relates to a structural unit for the use in building construction of floors, roofs and walls of a building. There is provided a structural unit for a building comprising: at least one truss; at least one fibrous cementitious building element; and at least one connection member configured to connect the at least one truss to the at least one fibrous cementitious building element, wherein, the connection member is integral with the building element and accessible for connection of the at least one truss to the building element. Also claimed is a method of constructing the structural unit.
Abstract:
A concrete slab structural member comprises a frame of cold bend thin wall steel profiles and concrete enclosing the same, in which the main surfaces of two longitudinal cold bend thin wall steel profiles (51, 52, 91, 92) included in each longitudinal cold bend thin wall steel profile keel are parallel to the main surface of the concrete slab, the two longitudinal cold bend thin wall steel profiles (51, 52, 91, 92) are spaced apart and opposite each other along a direction perpendicular to the main surface of the concrete slab, so that a space (200) for the concrete to flow through when it is poured is left between the two longitudinal cold bend thin wall steel profiles. Also provided is a construction method for building a concrete slab structural member. The structural member has avoided or reduced as much as possible the problem of the flowing of concrete being hindered when it is poured, due to the placement of the cold bend thin wall steel profiles perpendicular to the concrete slab, which exists in the concrete structural member with cold bend thin wall steel profiles in the prior art, and the problem of cold bridges that is created by the perpendicularly placed cold bend thin wall steel profiles in the concrete formed after pouring the same.
Abstract:
Composite structural system for floors or roofs comprising steel beams and reinforced concrete slab or shear walls comprising steel columns and reinforced concrete diaphragms. In both cases a steel plate with holes crossed with rebars is welded to the steel beam or to the steel column which performs the integral combination of the concrete, the structural element and the rebars.
Abstract:
A device anchoring a concrete slab to the top of a wooden or concrete pile, preventing the concrete, when subjected to uplift, from tearing away from the pile. A notch on each side of the pile has a surface inclined upward and outward from the pile''s axis and supporting concrete-anchoring means. This inclined surface resists uplifting force on the slab. One type of anchoring device comprises a rod extending thru the pile, inclined to a plane containing its axis, and ending above it in a concrete-anchoring hook. Another type comprises an angle iron, fixed in the notch, and extending laterally beyond the sides of the pile. To this angle a hooked concrete-anchoring rod (or pair of rods) optionally may be fixed.