Accelerated performance evaluation of repair mortars for concrete sewer pipes subjected to sulfuric acid attack

Estimation of Service Life of Concrete Pipes in Sewer Networks

The expense of repair and maintenance of private and public sewage systems in Germany runs to about 100 billion US $. This primarily affects concrete pipes and brickwork sewers. Approximately 40 per cent of the damage can be attributed to corrosion by biogenous sulfuric acid attack as a result of long flow periods and insufficient ventilation of waste water. The report deals with investigations...

comparative evaluation of poly urethane and poly vinyl chloride in lining concrete sewer pipes for preventing biological corrosion

corrosion makes huge economic and ecologic damage all over the world. biologic corrosion of sewer pipes is considered as a serious limitation in economic perspectives. to prevent biologic corrosive damage, lining techniques can be applied by materials and aggregate resistant to attack bacterially in sewer pipes. the role of bacteria is that they convert sulfur compounds into sulfuric acid which...

Multiscale sulfate attack on sewer pipes: Numerical study of a fast micro-macro mass transfer limit

We present two multiscale reaction-diffusion (RD) systems modeling sulfate attack in concrete structures (here: sewer pipes). The systems are posed on two different spatially separated scales. The only difference between them is the choice of the micro-macro transmission condition. We explore numerically the way the macroscopic Biot number Bi connects the two reactiondiffusion scenarios. We ind...

Performance of Glass Concrete Subjected to Freeze-Thaw Cycling

This article reports the potential use of waste glass powder (GP) to improve the performance of concrete subjected to freeze-thaw (FT) cycling. Three GP contents were utilized in the study: 6%, 12%, and 18% by weight of cement. The other experimental parameters that were investigated in the study include: water to cement ratio (0.4 and 0.6) and aggregate type (limestone and tuff). Concrete pris...

Performance of Polymer-encased Concrete Walls Subjected to Blast Loads