Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Betong'

Concrete is a very common construction material. It´s characteristics are strength, durability and formablility. Superplasticizer is a common admixture, which changes the properties of concrete.

Today (spring 2007) there are no certian mathematical methods to calculate the required percentage of this admixture needed to give the necessary set slump flow in the overall concrete recipe.

Concrete batching companies must therefor experiment with different amount of superplasticizer in order to meet the specified slump and strength.

The purpose og this report is to investigate if any mathematical relation can be established between the amount of superplasticizer used and the slump flow achieved.

After carrying out some practical experiments using four different superplasticizers a direct relationship can be establish between the percentage of admixture used and the slump/flowability achieved. Unfortunatly at present due to the numerous variables, the calculation of mathematical formula can not be achieved.

Betonggjutning är ett tungt moment inom byggproduktion och entreprenörer har länge använt betong med flyttillsats för att få en mer lättarbetad betong. Ändå har det krävts långa arbetspass och många tungarbetade moment. Efter lasernivellering, vibrering, slodning och glättning har man kunnat uppnå en yta som nästan är helt jämn. Dock ej så jämn att avjämningsmassa kunnat elimineras för att inte få sviktande parkett eller buktande plastmattor.

Självkompakterande betong (SKB), eller vibreringsfri betong som man först kallade den, forskades fram på 80-talet i Japan och dök upp i Sverige i slutet på 90-talet. Det är en betong som innehåller en flyttillsats och en så kallad filler vars gemensamma egenskaper ger en betong som har bibehållen homogenitet samtidigt som den fyller ut formen och omsluter armering endast genom gravitationskraften. SKB är ca 10-15 % dyrare än traditionell betong men har motiverats med framförallt minskad produktionstid, färre betongarbetare och bättre arbetsmiljö.

Eftersom SKB mer eller mindre är flytande så blir jämnheten mycket god. Erfarenhetsmässigt har ytorna blivit i det närmaste perfekta efter lasernivellering, slodning och torrslipning. Trots stora konstaterade arbetsmiljövinster och vetskapen om den goda ytjämnheten har AB Färdig Betong i Karlstad endast levererat SKB till 8 projekt sedan 1997.

Examensarbetets syfte är att fastställa om SKB kan motiveras baserat på den goda ytjämnhet som kan uppnås redan efter gjutning jämfört med normalpresterande betong (NPB).

Examensarbetet har utförts i samarbete med Skanska Sverige AB i Karlstad, som under våren 2006 genomförde två projekt med SKB. Mätningar av ytor med SKB gjordes på Färjstad i Karlstad och mätningar av referensytor med NPB gjordes i Karlstad med omnejd. Mätningarna kompletteras med intervjuer i form av erfarenhetsåterföring från dem som tillverkat, levererat, mottagit, gjutit och efterbehandlat betongtypen.

De krav på ytjämnhet av platsgjuten betong som generellt tillämpas återfinns i Hus AMA 98 och definieras som buktighet, lutning och nivåskillnad. Resultaten från mätningarna bedömdes i enlighet med Hus AMA 98, därefter har betongtypernas mätvärden analyserats och jämförts.

Utifrån resultaten har bland annat följande slutsatser kunnat konstateras:

Självkompakterande betong kan vid rätt handhavande ge en yta som uppfyller kraven enligt Hus AMA’s krav för undergolv i klass B utan varken vibrering, slipning eller efterbehandling.

Användandet av SKB i större bostadsprojekt skapar stora förutsättningar för lägre totalekonomi jämfört med användandet av NPB. Detta baseras huvudsakligen på minskat behov av arbetskraft vid gjutning och efterbehandling av den gjutna ytan.

De bekräftade möjligheterna för förbättrad ytkvalitet redan efter gjutning kommer i framtiden innebära att fler entreprenörer väljer SKB.

Concrete moulding is a heavy moment in the building process and for a long time contractors have used an admixture to create a concrete that is easier to handle. However many hours of work and heavy moments has been required. After laser levelling, vibrating, screeding and troweling a surface that is almost flat has been obtained. Yet not flat enough to eliminate floor levelling and thereby avoiding bending parquet flooring or curved plastic flooring.

Self-compacting concrete (SCC), or vibrating free concrete as it was named in the beginning, was developed in the eighties in Japan and showed up in Sweden in the late nineties. It is a concrete that contains an admixture and filler that together makes the concrete flow under its own weight, completely filling the formwork and achieving full compaction, even in the presence of congested reinforcement. SCC is approximately 10-15 % more expensive than traditional concrete but is motivated with faster construction times, fewer workers and an improved work environment.

Since SCC just about flows the resulting surface becomes almost perfect. Experience shows that surfaces are nearly perfect after laser levelling, screeding and dry smoothing. Despite the advantages of the flat surfaces and the established improvement on the work environment, AB Färdig Betong in Karlstad, Sweden has only delivered SCC to eight projects since 1997.

The aim of this degree thesis is to determine if SCC can be motivated based on the flat surfaces that can be obtained after moulding compared to traditional concrete.

The degree thesis has been performed in cooperation with Skanska Sverige AB in Karlstad, Sweden at their two projects with SCC in spring 2006. The measurement of SCC surfaces was made in Färjestad, Karlstad and reference measurements of traditional concrete was made in Karlstad and surroundings. The measurement have been complemented with interviews that present experience of producing, delivering, receiving, moulding and after treating SCC.

The requirements for on site moulding concrete surfaces that are to be followed are found in Hus AMA 98 and is defined as curve, rake and level variance. The result from the measurements are judged on the basis of the requirements.

Conclusions

Correctly performed SCC can create a surface that fulfils the requirements in Hus AMA 98 for a class B floor.

The use of SCC in larger housing constructions makes conditions for a lower total cost. This is based principally on fewer workers, faster construction times and less after treatment of the moulded surfaces.

The confirmed possibilities of improved surfaces after moulding should mean that more contractors will use SCC in the future.

By using modern methods of casting concrete, cast in place can get more effective and industrialized. A modern method is self compacting concrete. By using this type of concrete, advantages like improved working environment and rationalized construction can be reached. Because the concrete doesn’t need to be vibrated, the amount of staff on site and the noise can be reduced.

Self compacting concrete has been used in Sweden for over 10 years, still it only stands for

5 % of the cast in placed concrete in the country. This report deals with, why self compacting concrete isn’t used more often when casting in place within civil engineering.

The result is that self compacting concrete with “anläggningscement” (Swedish low heat Portland cement) is a sensitive product because many factors needs to be correct to reach a good result. A reason fore this sensitivity is that the recipe of the concrete has a low tolerance for variations in the different components. Small variations can lead to changes in the consistency which means that the concrete is destroyed and this will result in delay of the delivery to the site. When casting self compacting concrete it’s dependent that the flow of fresh concrete comes continuously, otherwise the concrete can start to cure.

The problem that self compacting concrete is a sensitive product needs to be resolved to ensure that this concrete can help casting in place to be industrialized within civil engineering.

We have the tradition in Sweden to build villas and houses with a wooden framework. It has become natural for us because we have so much forest in our country. Building with wood has advantages, it is easy to process, but also disadvantages, as it is sensitive to moisture.

Finland has long made use of the thermal blocks to build villas. It is a type of bricks that are a bit like a sandwich element, with a core of EPS and concrete on both sides of the core material. The concrete is hollow, so that after the walls has been bricked up you pour concrete into the hollow bricks.

The issue of this report is to find out if concrete can be an alternative to wood as framework material in villas. To make the comparison, we have used us a reference house. We have a wall with a wooden framework with the same U-value as the thermal blocks to get a fair energy comparison.

One of the advantages of the thermal blocks is its relatively high heat storage capacity. The heat storage capacity makes the indoor temperature more even and you do not have to have as much effect on the heating system. You can also bring down the energy consumption because the concrete stores the free heat in the form of solar radiation, personal heat and heat from machines, which are then released when the room temperature is lower than the wall temperature. Another advantage is that the building becomes almost free of thermal bridges when building with thermal blocks. The only cold bridges you get are the ones around windows and doors. The wall of thermal blocks has a higher sounds reduction index and a higher fire class than the wall with a wooden framework.

Material costs for the heating blocks are almost twice as high as for a wall with a wooden framework with the same U-value. It is a disadvantage for the thermal blocks. By contrast, heating blocks, doesn’t take as long to build, which on our reference building reduces construction time by about 60 hours.

The energy to save thanks to the heat storage and the virtual absence of thermal bridges is approximately 1700kWh a year. There is not much energy, so it takes a long time to earn the extra amount it costs to build with the thermal blocks compared with wooden framework.

The motive to build with the thermal blocks is instead the high level of comfort you get. You get fewer hours with the upper and lower temperatures in the building and less disturbed by traffic noise and other noise from outside thanks to the higher sound reduction index.

Vi har som tradition i Sverige att bygga villor och småhus med träregelstomme. Det har blivit naturligt för oss, eftersom vi har så mycket skog i landet. Att bygga med trä har fördelar, som att det är lätt att bearbeta men också nackdelar, som att det är känsligt för fukt.

I Finland har man länge använt sig av värmeblock för att bygga villor. Det är en typ av mursten som är lite likt ett sandwichelement, med en kärna av EPS-cellplast och betong på båda sidorna om cellplasten. Betongen är ihålig, så att efter man har murat upp väggarna och dragit installationer gjuter man i hålrummen väggarna.

Frågeställningen i denna rapport är om betong kan vara ett alternativ till trä som stommaterial till villor. För att kunna göra jämförelsen har vi använt oss av ett referenshus. Vi har tagit fram en vägg med träregelstomme med samma U-värde som värmeblocken för att få en rättvis energijämförelse.

En av fördelarna med värmeblocken är dess relativt höga värmelagringsförmåga. Värmelagringsförmågan gör att man får en jämnare inomhustemperatur och man behöver inte ha så hög effekt på värmeanläggningen. Man kan också få ner energiförbrukningen genom att betongen lagrar gratisvärme i form av solinstrålning, personvärme och värme från maskiner, som sedan avges när rumstemperaturen blir lägre än väggens temperatur. Ytterligare en fördel är att man blir nästan helt utan köldbryggor när man bygger med värmeblocken. De enda köldbryggor man får är runt fönster och dörrar. Man har en högre brandklass och en högre luftljudsisolering på väggen av värmeblocken än på träregelväggen.

Materialkostnaderna för värmeblocken är nästan dubbelt så hög som för en träregelvägg med samma U-värde. Det är det som talar emot dessa. Däremot har värmeblocken en lite lägre enhetstid, som på vår referensbyggnad kortar ner byggtiden med ca 60 timmar.

Den energibesparing man gör tack vare värmelagringen och de nästan obefintliga köldbryggorna är ungefär 1700kWh om året. Det är inte så stor energibesparing, så det tar lång tid innan man tjänar in den extra summa det kostar att bygga med värmeblock jämfört med träregelstomme.

Motivet för att bygga med värmeblocken är istället den höga komfort man får. Man får färre timmar med över- och undertemperaturer i byggnaden och man störs mindre av trafikbuller och annat buller utifrån tack vare den högre luftljudsisoleringen.

This report provides a comparison between the products cellular concrete, foam

concrete and LECA concrete. The questions to be answered during the work is how

the cellular concrete stands up in cost terms to the existing competitors on the market,

how the concrete products differ in design work, and in which situations the concrete

varieties are preferred to use.

Cellular concrete is a variant of ordinary concrete, with the difference that the ballast

is exchanged from stone materials to expanded polystyrene beads (EPS). This

substitution gives a product with higher insulation values but lower weight than

ordinary concrete.

The work was carried out by designing a survey which was sent to two hundred

randomly chosen companies across Sweden, to see the building industry’s opinion of

the product cellular concrete. The survey showed that cellular concrete was equals its

competitors in terms of price, while the product was said to be more flexible, quicker

and easier to cast.

Then some of the companies, who participated in the survey, were interviewed to see

more carefully, how the price, the workmanship and the time for casting and

dehydration differed between the products. Meanwhile, technical data were presented

for the products which formed the basis for the U-value calculation and the weight

analysis.

The result of this work was that LECA concrete is the cheapest option, when the Uvalue

is 0,40 W/(mK) and when the total thickness, including the following works, is

200 mm. Cellular concrete was found to be cheaper than foam concrete in small

quantities, in the both cases, since the foam concrete must be cast in multiple layers.

In addition, foam concrete requires more equipment, which results in a higher fixed

cost. Foam concrete becomes, however, more profitable the larger volumes that are

cast, because the fixed charges of the product are earned by the low volume cost.

Cellular concrete is suitable for smaller works, especially in tight spaces where some

insulation is required. Larger volumes are not beneficial because of the high volume

cost. Often, the weight may be decisive in the method and material selection. On these

occasions, the cellular concrete advantages through both low weight per unit volume

and good thermal insulation. To screed the cellular concrete has been shown to cause

large additional costs. At times, when no need to screed the concrete surface has

occurred, the total cost of the product almost halved. Cellular concrete should not be

cast in layers thinner than 50 mm.

LECA concrete must be cast in a layer of at least 100 – 120 mm that sufficient

adhesion can be obtained. This makes the product unsuitable for small castings,

including castings of the existing joists below 100 mm, but works well as foundations.

Of those described options, foam concrete is most suitable in larger castings.

However, it appears that the main use of foam concrete has been shown to be as a

filling material in road embankments.