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Hextiles
are available with the above rapid setting high strength concrete
materials and HEXMESH™ grades. Refractory materials and
stainless steel Hexmesh ™ are available for high temperature
floor applications
Once the hextile floor area is installed using compatible
grout and mortar, the HEXMESH™ surface armor becomes
the wearing surface. The concrete materials are locked and
anchored within the individual HEXMESH™ cells.
WHY
USE HEXTILE WITH HEXMESH FLOOR ARMOR?
All concrete cracks. It does so as a result of inherent internal
stresses set up as it cures, in combination with the forces
of thermal expansion and contraction. This natural cracking
is only increased by external stresses such as rolling and
impact loads. Spalling, and ultimately the failure, of a concrete
slab begins with the first crack. As the crack grows it branches,
weakening the slab, so that eventually more cracks begin.
As the process advances, it snowballs, resulting in ever faster
degradation of the slab. If there are corrosive liquids that
normally come in contact with the slab, they penetrate the
cracks and make matters worse.
THE
CONVENTIONAL METHOD OF CRACK CONTROL
Expansion joints, either formed or sawed, are the most commonly
used method of controlling concrete cracking. They can help,
but they are not a permanent solution. In some cases cracks
form elsewhere in spite of them, and in other cases spalls
begin at the edge of the joint itself.
FORMED
CRACKING WITH HEXTILE UTILIZING HEXMESH FLOOR ARMOR PERMANENT
CRACK CONTROL
HEXMESH™ creates cracks in concrete before they happen
by chance. Hextiles offer maximum resistance to cracking.
The HEXMESH™ forms an entire floor surface of interlocked,
two-inch hexagonal concrete blocks, each of which is virtually
impervious to cracking. Moreover, the mesh mechanically locks
the concrete within itself to prevent spalling indefinitely.
The HEXMESH™ within the concrete also serves to distribute
any concentrated load over a much wider area in "snowshoe"
fashion, while it contributes to greatly enhanced wearing
qualities of the surface.
A SURFACE
THAT IMPROVES WITH AGE
As the Hextile with HEXMESH™ armored concrete surface
wears, the edge of the mesh begins to peen over, increasing
the area of surface steel, more tightly locking-in the concrete,
all the while maintaining the over-all flatness of the surface.
The net result is the most durable concrete surface known
today, especially for any area subject to severe and frequent
rolling and impact loads.
HEXTILES
ARE EASILY INSTALLED
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