Method for internal and external collaborative integrated protection of concrete

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2026092018-A1
Application number	US-202519343236-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 29, 2025
Priority date	Sep 30, 2024
Publication date	Apr 2, 2026
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method for internal and external collaborative integrated protection of concrete is provided. The method has two aspects: first, combining reinforcement with cement and significantly enhancing compactness and strength of the concrete through a special surface treatment process; and second, successively constructing dual rough structures at microscopic and nanoscopic levels on the surface of the concrete through a super-hydrophobic anti-corrosive coating technology to form an efficient super-hydrophobic coating. The method effectively resists the erosion from external environments, solves problems such as carbonation of concrete, sulphate attack and corrosion of steel bar, and provides a high-performance and long-life concrete material solution for the field of civil engineering.

First claim

1 . A method for internal and external collaborative integrated protection of concrete, comprising the following steps:
SI. an internal protection process that comprises providing a method for enhancing compactness of cement concrete by reinforcement, which comprises:
SI-1: carrying out surface treatment of reinforcement, wherein the reinforcement is carbon fibers, a surface treatment method for the reinforcement is as follows:
SI-11: surface desizing of carbon fibers
placing a beaker with carbon fibers and absolute ethyl alcohol in an ultrasonic cleaner, and keeping an ultrasonic treatment mode on for 60 min to achieve effective desizing of surfaces of the carbon fibers;
taking out the carbon fibers, and ultrasonically treating the carbon fibers in deionized water for 30 min to completely remove residual absolute ethyl alcohol from the surfaces of the carbon fibers; placing a container with the carbon fibers in an oven, and setting a temperature to 60-80° C. for drying until the carbon fibers reach a constant weight state, to obtain desized carbon fibers;
SI-12: heat treatment of carbon fibers
spreading the desized carbon fibers in the container, placing the container in a muffle furnace, and setting a temperature of the muffle furnace to 100-500° C. to carry out heat treatment of the carbon fibers for 10-30 min to complete the surface treatment of the carbon fibers;
SI-2: preparing cement gel, dissolving the reinforcement treated in step SI-1 into a solvent, adding the mixture to the cement gel for mixing, pouring the mixture into a mold for forming, and carrying out solidification, form removal and indoor curing to obtain a cement concrete specimen;
Adding carboxymethyl cellulose to water until completely dissolved, wherein the mass ratio of the carboxymethyl cellulose to the water is 1:400, thereby obtaining a solvent. SII: an external protection process that comprises successively constructing dual rough structures at microscopic and nanoscopic levels on a surface of concrete through a super-hydrophobic anti-corrosive coating technology to form an efficient anti-corrosive coating, with a specific process as follows:
SII-1: construction of microstructure
SII-11: dissolving resin in anhydrous ethanol and a curing agent with a solvent, heating in a water bath, and conducting magnetic stirring to obtain a mixed solution, wherein the mass ratio of the resin to the curing agent is (9-12):1;
SII-12: immersing a surface to be protected of the cement concrete specimen cured in step SI into the mixed solution for 2-3 s, and then taking out the surface; and repeating this step twice, i.e., immersing three times in total, to obtain a bonding layer on the surface to be protected of the cement concrete specimen;
SII-13: uniformly dispersing particles on a surface of the bonding layer of the cement concrete specimen through a sieve to obtain a composite material with a microcosmic rough structure, and then carrying out solidification;
SII-2: construction of nanostructure
SII-21: dissolving resin in anhydrous ethanol, a curing agent, a hydrophobic modifier and nano particles with a solvent, heating in a water bath, and conducting magnetic stirring to form a uniform super-hydrophobic suspension;
the mass ratio of the resin to the curing agent is (9-12):1; and the mass ratio of the curing agent to the hydrophobic modifier is 1:1;
SII-22: immersing a surface to be protected of the cement concrete specimen solidified in step SII into the super-hydrophobic suspension for 2-3 s, taking out the surface, and then carrying out solidification for 1-1.5 h;
SII-23: repeating the process of step SII-22 once;
SII-24: immersing the surface to be protected of the cement concrete specimen solidified in step SII-23 into the super-hydrophobic suspension for 2-3 s, taking out the surface, and then carrying out solidification for 3-3.5 h to obtain a concrete structure with internal and external collaborative integrated protection.

2 . The method for internal and external collaborative integrated protection of concrete according to claim 1 , wherein cement in the cement gel in step SI comprises portland cement, sulphoaluminate cement, phosphate cement, high alumina cement or slag cement.

3 . The method for internal and external collaborative integrated protection of concrete according to claim 1 , wherein the time of the indoor curing in step SI is 28 days, and the temperature is 18-22° C.

4 . The method for internal and external collaborative integrated protection of concrete according to claim 1 , wherein the curing agents in the construction of microstructure and nanostructure in step SII are amine, anhydride, phenolic aldehyde, isocyanate or waterborne curing agents.

5 . The method for internal and external collaborative integrated protection of concrete according to claim 1 , wherein the particles in step II are quartz sand particles, silicate minerals, silica powder or silica microbeads; and the solidification in 1 of step SII is solidification at 45° C. for 5 h or solidification at room temperature.

6 . The method for internal and external collaborative integrated protection of concrete according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrophobic modifier in step SII is polydimethylsiloxane, fluorosilane hydrophobic modifier, organosilicone hydrophobic modifier or acrylate hydrophobic modifier.

7 . The method for internal and external collaborative integrated protection of concrete according to claim 1 , wherein the nano particles in step SII are nano SiO 2 , nano TiO 2 , nano Al 2 O 3 , carbon nanotubes, graphene nanosheets or nano clay.

Assignees

• Harbin Inst Technology

Inventors

• He Zongjing
• Li Zhuoyan
• Mu Chen
• Chu Hongyan
• Xu Huining
• Tan Yiqiu

Classifications

• D06M2101/40

  Fibres of carbon · CPC title

• D06M10/02

  Sonic or ultrasonic waves; Corona discharge · CPC title

• C09D183/04

  Polysiloxanes · CPC title

• C09D163/00

  Coating compositions based on epoxy resins; Coating compositions based on derivatives of epoxy resins · CPC title

• C09D5/1693

  as part of a multilayer system · CPC title