Resistance of Silicate Materials in Water and Aggressive Media

In a number of Russian normative-technical documents there is a prohibition against the use of silicate products in foundations, basements and socles of buildings and structures as well as in premises with humid and wet conditions (SP 15.13330, SP 28.13330, SP 70.13330). These limits are partly correct with regard to products of 50–70th of the XX century. During the last decades the technology of production was enhanced and the quality of manufactured products was significantly improved. The experience in the use of silicate materials under moisture impact in many countries of the West Europe (Germany, Netherland, Swiss, Austria) calls into question the fairness of limitation of their application. That’s why the Association of silicate products manufacturers sets the task to prove or disprove the proposition that silicate materials, when they are in water or under impact of salt solution, are destroyed or lose their consumer properties.

M.V. KORNEV, Candidate of Sciences (Engineering), Deputy Director for research and development (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
T.P. KORNEVA, Chief Foreman of Brick Shop

OOO «Silikatstroy» (111 Lenina Avenue, 606000 Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russian Federation)

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