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How to achieve the right industrial floor?
by Dipl.-Chem. Dr. Peter Seidler
Industrial Floors 1991, International Colloquium Jan 15-17, 1991
1. Introduction
"How to achieve the right industrial floor" is the subject of my talk, which is intended as an introduction to the overall subject matter of this wide-ranging colloquium. Nobody will expect me to give anything approaching an exhaustive presentation of this subject.
Our area of work is extremely broad and highly complex. Any attempt to give a summarized presentation is inevitably difficult. Nevertheless the underlying principle appears straightforward if I define it in the following way:
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Find a suitable binder which can be used with low-priced aggregates to produce a joint-free and crack-free, smooth slab of high strength - especially on the surface - at the construction site. |
In this talk I only wish to select, by way of example, certain important points which are of particular relevance for me personally because they occur in my particular area of work:
- The composition of concrete
- The lack of standards and guidelines
- The term "industrial floor"
- The term "strength"
- Further "humanization" of work
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What has happened in the history? It is often sensible to take a look at the past. It is now 20 years since the Acid-Proof Construction Working Group of the German Industrial Construction Association (AGI) assembled in Cologne in 1978. In Guideline S 10 the authors cite seven reasons which to me still appear valid today and which justify this colloquium:
- The lack of adequate, uniform technical guidelines.
- The lack of literature dealing with the latest developments.
- Considerable technical developments resulting from new or improved materials and therefore modified processes.
- Cases of damage, some of which are attributable to lack of knowledge regarding materials and process techniques.
- Production of documents for building practice which draw the expert's attention to the most important points and which can be used to provide information for the instruction of new staff.
- Drawing up principles for collaboration between building owner and contractor.
- Assignment of decision making and responsibility through the choice of appropriate acid protection measures.
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