Advantages
Advantages of polymer concrete include:
- Rapid curing at ambient temperatures
- High tensile, flexural, and compressive strengths
- Good adhesion to most surfaces
- Good long-term durability with respect to freeze and thaw cycles
- Low permeability to water and aggressive solutions
- Good chemical resistance
- Good resistance against corrosion
- Lighter weight (only somewhat less density than traditional concrete, depending on resin content in the mix)
- May be vibrated to fill voids in forms
- Allows use of regular form-release agents (in some applications
- Dielectric
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