Experimental Works

Castings for mechanical testing is almost finished. It has been (and still will be) two busy casting week. Another News is Our 60°C Reactor from Schleibinger has leakage problems.

Unfortunately this results in more delay on our 4th workpackage. The initial plan was to cast in May, 2012. But due to problems we postponed this date. With these unfortunate news we are facing another delay of couple of months. Unlucky for a PhD work...

fingers Crossed...

Mechanical Properties Degradation due to ASR-Swelling: The show has been started!!

After several trails (e.g. Trial Tests 1 ) and a long preparation, this week the first sample have been casted.
Just to give some numbers:
- 425 lt. of concrete will be produced
- in 6 casting along 4 weeks
- 107 sample
- 14 Young's modulus test, 14 splitting tensile test, 6 compressive strength tests will be performed along 52 weeks.
- 5 home made reactor will host the specimens during the storing time.

Here you can find some pictures of our work:

Home Made reactors.

Heater (bottom) and Controller (top) outside view.

Heater (bottom) and Controller (top) inside view.

Small Boxes in which the sample are stored.

Mould 10x10x40 cm for sample used in the Young's modulus test.

Mould 15x15x15 cm for sample used in the splitting tensile strength.

Erik Schlangen in TEDx Talks

Professor Erik Schlangen will give a talk about "self-healing concrete and asphalt" part of TEDx Delft tomorrow (05 Oct 2012) at 12:18. Don't Miss it.

You can stream his talk via: http://www.tedxdelft.nl/livestream/
or you can watch it later on TEDxDelft web site: http://www.tedxdelft.nl/ .

4th Users' Committee Meeting

Biannual Meeting with our academic and industrial partners was held today (04/10/2012) in TU Delft. It has been a fruitful meeting and many constructive discussions. We would like to thank all our Users for their participation...

PAT-ASR Team