Method of manufacturing a concrete element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020276729-A1
Application number	US-201816645964-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 5, 2018
Priority date	Sep 11, 2017
Publication date	Sep 3, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

In a method of manufacturing a concrete element having a functional layer, a rear side of the functional layer being bonded to the concrete element by an adhesive, the roughness of the rear side of the functional layer is increased by sand blasting, wherein the sand blasting is carried out for obtaining a surface roughness Ra of the rear side of the functional layer of between 1.5 μm and 6 μm.

First claim

1 . A method of manufacturing a concrete element having a functional layer, a rear side of the functional layer being bonded to the concrete element by means of an adhesive, comprising:
increasing the roughness of the rear side of the functional layer by means of sand blasting, providing a mould, placing the functional layer at the bottom or at a side wall of the mould with the rear side facing the interior of the mould, applying an adhesive layer on the rear side surface of the functional layer, pouring fresh concrete into the mould, thereby at least partially covering the rear side of the functional layer with concrete, allowing the concrete to harden, demoulding the hardened concrete element,
wherein the sand blasting is carried out for obtaining a surface roughness Ra of the rear side of the functional layer of between 1.5 μm and 6 μm.

2 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the functional layer is configured as a flexible layer and the sand blasting is carried out for obtaining a surface roughness Ra of the rear side of the functional layer of between 3 and 5.2 μm.

3 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the functional layer is configured as a rigid layer and the sand blasting is carried out for obtaining a surface roughness Ra of the rear side of the functional layer of between 1.6 and 3.4 μm.

4 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the functional layer is a photovoltaic panel.

5 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the adhesive layer is applied onto the rear side of the functional layer so as to form a layer thickness of 0.5-1.5 mm.

6 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein an epoxy resin based adhesive is used as said adhesive.

7 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the sand blasting is carried out over a time period of 5-60 sec.

8 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the sand blasting is carried out by using compressed air having a pressure of 4 bar-8 bar.

9 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the sand blasting is carried out at a blasting distance of 15-25 cm.

10 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the sand blasting comprises using sand having a particle size distribution, which is characterized by a D90 of <900 μm.

11 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the sand blasting comprises using silica sand of medium grade according to ISO 14688-1:2002 having a particle size between 0.2 and 0.63 mm.

12 . A method according to claim 11 , wherein the sand blasting comprises using silica sand having a particle size distribution, which is characterized by a D50 of 310 μm and a D10 of 250 μm.

13 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the sand blasting comprises using sand of fine grade according to ISO 14688-1:2002.

14 . A method according to claim 10 , wherein the sand blasting is carried out over a time period of >25 sec.

15 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the sand blasting comprises using sand having a particle size distribution, which is characterized by a D90 of >900 μm.

16 . A method according to claim 15 , wherein the sand blasting comprises using sand comprising >80 wt.-% aluminum silicate crystals.

17 . A method according to claim 15 , wherein the sand blasting is carried out over a time period of <10 sec.

18 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the concrete is a ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) having a compressive strength of >100 MPa at 28 days, a high performance concrete (HPC) having a compressive strength of >80 MPa at 28 days, or an earth-binder based concrete.

19 . Concrete element having a functional layer, a rear side of the functional layer being bonded to the concrete element by means of an adhesive, wherein the construction element is obtained by the method of claim 1 .

20 . A method comprising utilizing a concrete element obtained by the method of claim 1 , as a construction element.

21 . A method according to claim 1 , wherein the functional layer comprises a carrier and a functional element arranged on the carrier, and wherein the carrier forms the rear side of the functional layer and is made of a polymer.

Assignees

• Holcim Technology Ltd

Inventors

• Horgnies Matthieu
• Legrand Fabienne
• Molinès Gérard
• Meunier Laurent
• Dubois-Brugger Isabelle

Classifications

• B32B2262/103

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