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CRACK REPAIR

TECHNIQUES

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CRACK REPAIR TECHNIQUES
1. Sealing with epoxies
2. Routing and sealing
3. Stitching
4. External stressing
5. Overlays
6. Grouting
7. Blanketing
8. Autogenous healing

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1.SEALING WITH EPOXIES
 Injecting epoxy bonding compounds in high pressure in to cracks
PROCEDURE
1. Drill into the cracks
2. Flush out cracks by injecting water/other solvents
3. Dry the surface
4. Epoxy injection in to holes
5. Curing of epoxy
6. Remove surface seal by grinding

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2. ROUTING AND SEALING
 Simplest , most common , inexpensive method
 For both fine and larger isolated cracks
 This method involves enlarging the crack along its exposed
face and sealing it with a suitable joint sealant
 Most used for floors and pavements
 In road pavements hot tar used as sealant
 Side effects –
 chemical attack
 corrosion of rebars
 swelling

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3. STITCHING
 Stitching may be used when tensile strength must be reestablished
across major cracks.
 Stitching involves
 drilling holes on both sides of the crack
 grouting in U-shaped metal units with short legs called staples or
stitching dogs

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4. EXTERNAL STRESS
 The development of cracking is due to the tensile stress ,thus can be
arrested by suppressing this stress
 Cracks can be closed by inducing a compression force to over come
the tensile stresses
 The compressive force is applied by
1. Pre-stressing wires or rods
2. Wedging – by opening the cracks and filling with expanding
mortar,by jacking and grouting or by actual driving wedges

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Examples of external stressing

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5.BLANKETING
 Blanketing is similar to routing and sealing
 used on a larger scale and is applicable for sealing active as
well as dormant cracks.
 Following are the types of blanketing joints
 Type I
 Type II
 TypeIII
 Type IV

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 Type I
 The first type of blanket joints use elastic sealants
 They return to their original shape, when not under an
externally induced stress
 A bond breaker should be used at the bottom of the chase, so
that the sealant is free to deform.

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 Type II
 use sealant materials that are known as mastic sealants
 Their details are similar to that of an elastic sealant, except
that the bond breaker is omitted and the sealant is bonded to
the bottom as well as to the sides of the chase.

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 Type III
 It is a mortar plugged joint
 A recess in the form of a trapezoid to accomodate the mortar
plug is made
 This recess is filled with mortar

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 Type IV
 A water cripped bar is used

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6 .OVERLAYS
 Used to seal cracks
 Used when large no of cracks, treating each crack is expensive
 Active cracks – overlays done with materials which are
extensible but not flexible
Eg : Polymeric membrane with top coat of tar
 Dormant cracks – any type of overlays may be used
Eg: polymer modified Portland cement mortar or concrete, or
by silica fume concrete

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7. GROUTING
 Similar to epoxy injection
 Epoxy not used where fire resistance and cold weather
 Grouting is effective alternative
 When the crack is straight line
 Drill out the length of crack
 grout it to form a key
 This method is effective in stopping water leaks

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8.AUTOGENOUS HEALING
 Autogenous healing is the natural process of crack repair that can occur in
concrete in the presence of moisture
 The repair is by a combination of mechanical blocking by particles carried into
the crack with the water and the deposition of calcium carbonate from the
cementitious material
 MECHANISM
Autogenous healing occurs by the carbonation of calcium oxide and calcium
hydroxide present in the cement by CO2 present in the air and water
The resulting CaCO3 and Ca(OH)2 crystals precipitate accumulate and grow
through and out from cracks
Develop a mechanical and chemical bonding between crystals and between
surface and crystals
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