Repair Guidance Note 10: Performance-based rehabilitation of reinforced concrete structures - Part 2

摘要

The first Part of this Repair Guidance Note, published in CONCRETE in April 2008, reviewed research that indicated a high number of repair failures. This Part discusses some alternative approaches aimed at improving the situation. Over time, architects and builders have developed experience of what forms of construction work satisfactorily and produce a durable building or structure, with their experience being expressed in terms of materials used and styles of building that suit the particular geographic region or the function of the building concerned. That experience has gradually led to prescriptive Codes and Standards, which have the advantage that that are generally easy to understand and to control. There has been similar experience with respect to the repair of concrete structures, leading to the available contemporary guidance and recommendations.