Evaluation on the Strength Recovery Rate of Concrete Using Surface Coating Agent

Abstract

Cracks and voids of concrete cause the loss of durability. When the cracks reach to the surface of reinforced concrete structures, they can repair by various methods, but there are no effective repairing methods for latent faults or micro-cracks caused by load repetition because they cannot detect by surface state. In this study, we examined the presence or absence of self-repair performance of concrete mixed with the admixture using the coating material for repair, which has been used for a long time. Thus, the basic characteristics of concrete mixed with admixture were identified and self-repair performance was confirmed through experiments. As a result of considering the recovery of the strength of damaged concrete, concrete mixed with a surface coating agent showed a greater recovery effect than concrete mixed with non-mixed concrete. This effect is greater with the age of the damaged material. This shows that even if the repair coating material is mixed as an admixture, the crystal proliferation effect is maintained, and it is confirmed that the concrete mixed with the admixture has self-repairing performance.