Rapportage inventarisatie enkelvoudige voegen - Curnet

1. Experience about single seal joints
(i) Expansion joints for road bridges
Type of joint Example / Details use Subjective advice Remarks
Epoxy nosing with bonded "Vredestein"
seals
not used none
Steel nosing anchored in 2 types :
The good keeping of the 2 To use only for critical
epoxy
types of joints depends mainly replacements when
on the quality of the execution movement capacity needed is
between 30 and 80 mm.
To avoid for new joints
because of the risk of bad
behaviour.
- in hard resin (Freyssinet) - in hard resin : seldom used - in hard resin a few
anchored in the structure :
problems appeared
seldom used
(viaduct des Guillemins)
Steel nosing anchored in
concrete
Steel nosing in polymeric
concrete
- in flexible resin
(Lumicilice) glued on to
the structure
- in flexible resin : seldom
used
"Maurer", "Récrido", "GHH" Most used in Belgium
"Emergo" (Maurer)
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- in flexible resin a few
problems appeared
(cracking and
watertightness at the
boundary between the
concrete and the road
surfacing)
usually very good behaviour To pay attention to the
connection between the steel
nosing and the watertight
layer and also at the uplift of
the extremity to avoid the
flowing of water.
unknown not used Anchorage by a fibre concrete
has been proposed but not