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Greetings!
Welcome to Vector V-News
May 2008
We offer solutions...innovative solutions for concrete and steel corrosion.
Vector V-News highlights useful solutions and innovations in the concrete and steel repair and restoration industry.
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Go Green With Vector |
 You probably know that concrete is the most common man-made building material in the world. But did you know that each ton of cement production produces one ton of carbon dioxide? And, that the production of each cubic yard of concrete creates enough thermal pollution to raise the temperature of 500 cubic yards of concrete by one degree?
 Many of today's structures can be repaired and protected in order to avoid the cost, inconvenience, and environmental impact of replacement. For example, by restoring rather than replacing the Historic Rainbow Bridge, the Idaho DOT not only preserved a piece of history but also reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 900 tons and prevented the release of 4,800 GJ of heat, enough to boil three olympic sized swimming pools!
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PTI Attendees Learn about Post Tech |
 Attendees at the recent Post Tensioning Institute Convention in St. Louis had an opportunity to learn more about evaluating corrosion in both bonded and unbonded post tensioned structures. Corrosion of post tensioned structures can lead to an unsafe and expensive condition. Conventional corrosion evaluation methods such as corrosion rate or half cell corrosion potential measurements are not effective or impractical to use.
At the convention, Garth Fallis presented the PostTech® PT Corrosion Evaluation system, an alternative method to evaluate corrosion in post tensioned structures. The PostTech method makes direct measurement inside the post tensioned cable or tendon to determine if the post tensioned steel is exposed to a corrosive environment. The attendees particularly enjoyed Garth's video exposing entrapped moisture in a grouted post tensioned tendon over 100 feet away from the air source!
For more info on Vector's PostTech system for corrosion evaluation and drying post tensioned structures, click here. |
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Protection Systems for Marine Structures |
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 Concrete structures subject to the marine environment can show serious signs of corrosion including concrete cracking, spalling, and wide spread delaminations. To extend the life of these structures corrosion mitigation is frequently employed.
At the ACI Spring Meeting in Los Angeles, Chris Ball presented a technical presentation entitled "Overview of Corrosion Mitigation Systems for Marine Structures". Included in the presentation was a synopsis of systems typically utilized including impressed current cathodic protection and a wide range of galvanic protection systems. Galvanic protection systems used for concrete marine structures include; discrete embedded galvanic anodes, distributed galvanic anodes, surfaced applied galvanic protection, and galvanic jackets for pilings.
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Galvanic Balcony Protection |
 Galvanode ® ZincSheet provides an effective low maintainance option for protectiong ocean side balconies and other structures subject to corrosive conditions. Galvanode ZincSheet is a galvanic anode that is applied to the surface of the structure. Once the anode is connected to the embedded reinforcing steel, the anode provides sacrificial protection. To learn more about how Galvanode ZincSheet was recently used to protect hollow core balconies in the corrosive Florida environment, click here. |
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The Heat is On and Vector is Ready |
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 As evidenced by rising temperatures, spring blooms and orange barrels, the summer construction season is upon us. We hope you have a busy and successful construction season in 2008. To assist you in meeting your corrosion mitigation objectives, Vector manufactures and stocks the largest range of corrosion mitigation products in the concrete restoration industry and holds plenty of stock to meet your schedule. If you have corrosion mitigation needs call us today for:
- Galvashield® XP and XP+ for concrete repair patch
- Galvashield CC for targeted protection
- Galvashield DAS (distributed anode system)
- Galvashield ZincSheet for concrete
- Galvashield ZincTape for steel structures
- Galvanode® Jacket for marine piling
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Think Vector for Solutions to your Concrete and Steel Corrosion Problems.
Let us show you how our systems can work for you
Vector Corrosion Technologies
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