Structural strengthening systems
Carbon reinforcement for strengthening existing concrete and masonry structures, supplied as a matched system rather than as separate line items, because consultants and tender documents generally require published compatibility between components.
Specification
| Component | Description |
|---|---|
| Wrap fabric | Unidirectional carbon, specified by areal weight and layer count |
| Primer | Penetrating primer for prepared concrete |
| Saturant resin | Formulated to impregnate fabric on vertical surfaces |
| Levelling putty | For surface defects and pores |
| Plate adhesive | Thixotropic structural paste for bonded plate |
| Plate and rod | Pultruded CFRP plate and near surface mounted rod for flexural work |
A structural paste adhesive is not a saturating resin and the two are not interchangeable. Send us the drawing and the structural calculation and we will confirm which form the job needs.
Typical applications
- Column confinement
- beam and slab flexural strengthening
- shear strengthening
- seismic retrofit
- corrosion damage repair
Areal weight, not thickness
Wrap fabric is specified by grams per square metre and number of layers. Cured thickness is an output of those two things, not something you can order to. If a drawing states a thickness for a wrap system, it has been copied from a plate specification.