3D Printing of a Self-Healing Thermoplastic Polyurethane through FDM: From Polymer Slab to Mechanical Assessment

The use of self-healing (SH) polymers to make 3D-printed polymeric parts offers the po-tential to increase the quality of 3D-printed parts and to increase their durability and damage toler-ance due to their (on-demand) dynamic nature. Nevertheless, 3D-printing of such dynamic poly-mers is not a straightforward process due to their polymer...

From Scratch Closure to Electrolyte Barrier Restoration in Self-Healing Polyurethane Coatings

The effects of the soft block fraction and H-bond state in thermoplastic polyurethanes on autonomous entropy-driven scratch closure and barrier restoration are studied. To this aim, comparable polyurethanes with different segmentation states are applied as organic coatings on plain carbon steel plates, scratched under very well-controlled...

Particle characterisation and depletion of Li₂CO₃ inhibitor in a polyurethane coating

The distribution and chemical composition of inorganic components of a corrosion-inhibiting primer based on polyurethane is determined using a range of characterisation techniques. The primer consists of a Li2CO3 inhibitor phase, along with other inorganic phases including TiO2, BaSO4 and Mg-(hydr)oxide. The characterisation techniques included...

One-pot preparation and evaluation of thermo-remendable polyurethanes

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Resistance of cracked concrete healed by means of polyurethane against chloride penetration

A lot of damage is reported for constructions in marine environments. Marine environments are very aggressive, because of the high chloride concentration in sea water. Chlorides affect durability by initiating corrosion of the reinforcement steel. When cracks appear in the concrete structures, chlorides will penetrate faster and will initiate...

Polyurethane bonded aggregate revetments design manual

In this manual design rules and guidelines for the design of Polyurethane Bonded Aggregate revetments (PBA-revetments) are presented, based on results from laboratory research, full scale model tests, and experience and field measurements. Research is still ongoing, but from the first results some insight into the structural behaviour of PBA can...

Recent laboratory tests with elastomeric revetments

A new construction method of Polyurethane (PUR)-bonded revetments has been tested successfully on various locations in Germany, in the Netherlands, in France, and in the UK. See also the presentation of Bijlsma on this ICE breakwater conference. This year a series of large scale test in the GWK-facility in Hannover have been executed. This...

Elastocoast pilots in the Netherlands: 2008-2009 extended monitoring

From 2004 to 2007 several pilot tests with an Elastocoast revetment were constructed along the North-Sea islands in the most northern part of Germany. In 2007 Elastocoast was introduced to the Dutch market. Arcadis supervised the construction and monitoring of two prototype pilots in the Netherlands. (September 2007) Revetment on a rudimentary...

Elastomeric revetments: A new way of coastal protection

A new construction method of Polyurethane (PUR)-bonded revetments has been tested successfully as stable breakwater constructions on various locations in Germany (“Hamburg Hallig”, “Holm Gröde”), as dike revetment in the Netherlands (breakwater revetment in Zuidbout and Petten), as shoreline protection in France (canal embankment near Le Havre),...

Preliminary study of pur-revetment's application

PUR-revetment is a newly developed method for hydraulic application. Its structure is similar to that of open stone asphalt revetment, but the crushed stones are glued by polyurethane (PUR) instead of bitumen. To study the feasibility of applying PUR-revetment, a research based on the comparisons between PUR-revetment and open stone asphalt...