Course Coverage:

  • Concretes based on Portland Cements and their Durability
  • Concrete Structures before Portland Cement Era
  • Reasons for Damages/Deteriorations in Portland Cement Concrete
  • Limitations of Concrete
  • Repairs and Renovation Market/Demand
  • Ordinary Portland Cements Not Suitable for Repairs and Renovation Jobs
  • New European Standard for Repairs and Renovations
  • Additives/Admixtures in Concrete
  • Accelerators
  • Retarders
  • Normal Range Reducers or Plasticizers
  • High range water reducers or super plasticizers
  • Advantages of the use
  • Air Entraining Agents
  • Anti-freezing  Admixtures
  • Polymers as Repair, Restoration, Water-proofing, Durability improving, and protective materials
  • Polymer- Modified Mortars and Concretes
  • Types of Polymers in use
  • Prepackaged Polymer-Modified Mortars and Slurries
  • Principal of latest modifications and its effects on mortars and concretes
  • Uses of polymer modified mortars and concretes
  • Case histories