Feuchtesensoren in der Bauwerksüberwachung

Die Bestimmung des Wassergehalts und insbesondere der orts‐ und zeitabhängigen Feuchteverteilung in Baustoffen hat in der Forschung, Baustoffentwicklung, Bauwerksdiagnose und Bauwerksüberwachung einen besonderen Stellenwert. Bei der Untersuchung von Schadensursachen muss an Bauwerken in der Regel die Baustofffeuchte mit bewertet werden, da sowohl wesentliche Baustoffeigenschaften als auch die Dauerhaftigkeit von Bauwerken in entscheidendem Maße von deren Wassergehalt abhängig sind. In jüngster Zeit werden Feuchtesensoren eingesetzt, um die Funktionsfähigkeit und Dauerhaftigkeit von Instandsetzungs‐ bzw. Schutzmaßnahmen zu kontrollieren. Dies soll es dem Bauherrn ermöglichen, rechtzeitig Maßnahmen einleiten zu können, bevor Schäden infolge von Wasser‐ bzw. Chloridzutritt auftreten können. Condition Assessment with Moisture Sensors The determination of the water content in construction materials and in particular with regard to its depth and time dependent distribution is of high interest in the area of research, material development and condition assessment of structures. The assessment of the reason of damages mostly require to regard the moisture content of structures, because the moisture content basically affects material properties and the durability of structures. Recently moisture sensors have been used to control the functionality and durability of repair and protection measures. This enables the owner to carry out accurately timed measures to prevent damages due to the ingress of water and chlorides.     

Vermeidung von Schäden an Schlitzrinnen

Prevention of Damages to Concrete Gutters – Considerations on the Design of Expansion Joints In the last few years at some airports cracking was observed in concrete gutters, which are implemented in large areas as drainage. In order to reveal the influences on this cracking both laboratory investigations as well as numerical analyses referring the expansion joints and the gutters were carried out. The main focus was on the stiffness of the joint filling materials. Due to seasonal variations in temperature concrete pavements casted in wintertime tend to expand by higher temperatures in summer, whereas the deformations of the free edges can amount up to 5 to 10 mm. Such deformations should be met without any restrain. If this can not be ensured, horizontal pressures on the side‐walls of the gutters are raised. These pressures mainly depend on the stiffness of the joint filling material. In the adequate laboratory tests the stress‐strain‐relations for various materials was determined. For the mostly used bituminous soft board a comparatively stiff behaviour was proved. Thus the observed cracking mostly can be correlated with restraint stresses raised by such joint filling material.