{"id":165,"date":"2017-11-28T22:07:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T22:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waterfrontpark18.pages.tcnj.edu\/?p=165"},"modified":"2017-11-28T22:07:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T22:07:04","slug":"polymer-concrete-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/waterfrontpark18\/2017\/11\/28\/polymer-concrete-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymer Concrete Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following four types of polymers will be utilized to create polymer concrete to be manufactured and tested according to ASTM standards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Methyl Methacrylate<\/li>\n<li>Polyester<\/li>\n<li>Epoxy<\/li>\n<li>Vinyl Ester<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The methyl methacrylate concrete will be donated by Transpo. Industries Inc. This MMA concrete has the following composition:<\/p>\n<table class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"height: 244px\" width=\"455\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"221\">Component<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">Wt %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"221\">T-17 Powder<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">46.82%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"221\">T-17 Liquid<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">6.35%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"221\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Aggregate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">46.82%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Table 1: T-17 (MMA Polymer Concrete) from Transpo Industries Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The polyester polymer concrete has also been generously donated by Kwik Bond Polymers. The polyester concrete and its composition can be found in Table 2.<\/p>\n<table class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"height: 248px\" width=\"457\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"221\">Component<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">Wt %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"221\">Initiator<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">.233%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"221\">Polyester Resin<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">9.95%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"221\">Aggregate<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">89.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Table 2: Polyester Concrete from Kwik Bond Polymers<\/p>\n<p>The final two types of concrete will be purchased from Ergon Armor, pending budget approval. The composition of the epoxy and vinyl ester concrete can be found in Table 3 and 4 respectively.<\/p>\n<table class=\" aligncenter\" width=\"451\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"225\">Component<\/td>\n<td width=\"225\">Wt %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"225\">Hardener<\/td>\n<td width=\"225\">1.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"225\">Resin<\/td>\n<td width=\"225\">9.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"225\">Aggregate<\/td>\n<td width=\"225\">89.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Table 3: Epoxy Concrete from Ergon Armor<\/p>\n<table class=\" aligncenter\" width=\"451\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"225\">Component<\/td>\n<td width=\"225\">Wt %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"225\">Hardener<\/td>\n<td width=\"225\">.16%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"225\">Resin<\/td>\n<td width=\"225\">10.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"225\">Aggregate<\/td>\n<td width=\"225\">89.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Table 4: Vinyl Ester Concrete from Ergon Armor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following four types of polymers will be utilized to create polymer concrete to be manufactured and tested according to ASTM standards: Methyl Methacrylate Polyester Epoxy Vinyl Ester The methyl methacrylate concrete will be donated by Transpo. Industries Inc. This MMA concrete has the following composition: Component Wt % T-17 Powder 46.82% T-17 Liquid 6.35% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/waterfrontpark18\/2017\/11\/28\/polymer-concrete-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Polymer Concrete Update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/waterfrontpark18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/waterfrontpark18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/waterfrontpark18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/waterfrontpark18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/waterfrontpark18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/waterfrontpark18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/waterfrontpark18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/waterfrontpark18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/waterfrontpark18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}