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RepairStructuralNew Mixture Design and Guide Specifications and Inspector’s Manual

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Shotcrete has not traditionally been a material of choice for repair of bridge structures by many state highway departments. One reason for this is that bridge engineers have not been aware of advances in the quality and durability possible with high-performance shotcrete over the last

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Hugo Armelin and Denis Blais

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What separates the support of mining open­ings from the support of similar civil engineering structures is the fact that mine openings have to survive large defonnations as a result of changing stress conditions induced by progressive mining. Steel fibers impart to concrete and shotcrete a

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Making good pumpable concrete or wet­ mix shotcrete is not always easy, especially when fibers are present Adding fibers to ordinary wet-mix shotcrete sometimes re­ results in nonpalpable or difficult-to-pump concrete. Simply adding superplasticizer 10 fiber-reinforced shotcrete does not always result in a workable mixture.

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Mike Ballou

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