An old article about the military use of special UHPC concrete systems. The article is still relevant today.

 

 

 

 

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New mobile production plant for HPC and UHPC binder systems

In addition to our stationary production plant, we are planning to put a mobile HPC and UHPC production
plant for the production of HPC or UHPC binders into operation from the beginning of July. The production plant is housed in three 40" containers and is intended as an expandable modular system. In its basic configuration, the module will produce 120 t / day of binder material. A single packaging unit is integrated into the container for packaging in 1 to BigBag or in 25 kg paper bags. We also plan to commission a mobile HPC and UHPC mixing line one month later. For the basic equipment, a 40" container is required.
The mixing plant can produce approx. 60 t / day of HPC or UHPC ready-mixed concrete. In the basic version, the raw materials are processed "just in time" into binder or HPC / UHPC concrete. In case of a larger daily demand, the raw materials are stored in silos to supply the production modules with raw material

The production and mixing modules can then be used on any construction site in the world.
We will also sell these module systems. They will then be customised to the needs of the customer.
For local HPC or UHPC production, we also offer licences for our HPC and UHPC mixing recipes to our customers.

 

 

 

 

 

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New Generation low price HPC and UHPC Binder systems

 

For more than 25 years, we have been involved in the development, production and processing of HPC
and UHPC binder systems. Since then, we have always worked with the same reliable raw material suppliers. This long-standing cooperation guarantees quality, reliability and available.

This has enabled us to keep our HPC and UHPC binder prices unchanged since 2020. Our new UHPC concrete laboratory, which has been active since the beginning of this year, has revised some HPC and UHPC binder systems and these new versions particularly concern the qualities C80 to C140 as fibre-reinforced mortar, castable and shotcrete. We will be able to offer these qualities at a reduced price from June this year.

Would you like to know more about our HPC or UHPC binder systems or just a price for your current project? 

 

 

 

 

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Offshore hydrogen storage system made of UHPC

 

Since the beginning of this year, we have been working with several companies on an offshore project to
store hydrogen.
The hydrogen is to be produced and stored on a floating platform off the coast. Several storage units are planned that can be exchanged. The storage units are planned to be made of UHPC concrete.
For the construction, it is currently planned to use UHPC concrete with a compressive strength of over 200 MPa. Currently, the static and constructive calculations are being worked on. The first drafts are expected in two months.

Intercor our partner in Switzerland, Poland and Austria

The company Intercor with its owner Gordon Viol is a partner for Switzerland, Germany and Austria we have been working with for a very long time. Intercor AG is a specialist in HPC and UHPC security (safe construction and military), UHPC Phalt and UHPC TopLayer materials.

Gordon is also supplier of us for some of our raw materials. He is owner of mineral mines in the southern part of Africa.
 

Contact:
Intercor AG
Untermüli 11
6302 Zug
Switzerland

Tel: +41 76 428 79 77
www.intercor.ch

Use of UHPC HT construction material in extreme fire temperatures

20 years ago we started as the only one in the world to use high temperature resistant HT UHPC in areas
up to 1200°C / 2192°F. We use this material under the most extreme wear and temperature conditions in industry. High temperature resistant UHPC HT can be used as construction material, radiation insulation, floor material, wear protection and corrosion protection.

We produce this material in several qualities as mortar, castable and shotcreate.

Constructions made from our UHPC HT material can withstand very high temperatures for a very long
time. Steel and concrete structures are protected in steel plants, power plants, offshore platforms, civil construtions, refinery, chemical plants etc. with UHPC HT material.

A few years ago we started to develop UHPC HT materials for architectural applications. Today residental housing constructions can be built for example to withstand wild fires and fire storms for long period of time. There are already the first companies that want to manufacture doors and window security systems from UHPC HT. If windows and doors were to be secured against high temperatures, a fire from outside would have no way of penetrating the house.

These high-temperature UHPC HT are also available with mixed thermal insulation.

In public buildings, escape routes, stairwells and supporting structures can be secured against fire and destruction. UHPC HT can be processed in the same way as normal concrete.

UHPC HT is not only extreme fire-resistant and thus protects life, UHPC HT has a very high load-bearing capacity, no water can penetrate UHPC HT constructions at flooding
situation, UHPC HT can be perfectly processed as a tilt-up and precast construction and is absolutely resistant to all types of fungi and termite infestation. UHPC HT has also been used in the military and in security technology for many years.

 

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UHPC Floating platforms

The future will take place more and more on the water of the oceans, whether on the coast or in the open sea. UHPC Ultra high Performance Concrete will play a crucial role in this. The two main construction materials in the offshore sector so far are steel and concrete. However, both have significant disadvantages compared to UHPC.
On the one hand, there is resistance to salt water. Steel is very difficult to protect against corrosion and even then the construction still has to be serviced regularly and very time-consuming and expensive. Floating structures should have a lifespan of at least 100+ years in the future.
With normal concrete structures the problems are similar, if not more serious. Once extremely corrosive seawater has penetrated the steel reinforcement unnoticed, the repair effort is enormous. In addition, for this very reason, the construction must be extremely thick-walled. An anti-corrosion coating makes the entire construction additionally expensive and here too the entire construction must be checked regularly in short periods of time.
Special UHPC concretes have extremely high strength values ​​compared to normal concretes, they are waterproof after a wall thickness of a few millimeters and are absolutely salt water resistant. Some of our UHPC binders are also extremely temperature-resistant (up to max. 1200°C) and they are very good wear-resistant (resistant to wear and tear caused by moving ice floes). Due to the high strength values, structural elements can be optimized or minimized in terms of size and weight.
UHPC concrete will be the much cheaper material for the required service life.

As developers and producers of high-quality UHPC binder materials, we want to focus on three future projects:

1st project
Floating work platforms for energy generation and storage.
All the major offshore wind farm operators worldwide are currently planning not only to generate energy with wind turbines, but also to use this energy to produce hydrogen on site in the wind farm. Solar systems on the platforms should contribute to additional energy generation. The platforms can be manufactured in several standard segments and connected to form a network at sea. These platforms can be made from very lightweight UHPC. This UHPC material can be self-floating.

2nd project
Floating living and working platforms, artificial islands for the coastal area and for the open sea. Platforms
for residential buildings, hotels, schools, hospitals, office buildings and production facilities.
Please see the corresponding article below.

3rd project
Offshore missile launch sites
There are various ideas for implementing this. In Germany, launch sites on ships for small and medium-sized rocket systems for satellite transport are being considered and are already being planned. Elon Musk is planning rocket launch sites for converted former oil production platforms. In all of these plans, UHPC could contribute to intelligent, lasting solutions. Ships were built from UHPC more than 20 years ago and
offshore platforms with UHPC were significantly improved structurally and statically.
Please see the corresponding article below.

 

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Living and working on water and under water with UHPC as construction material

Since than 30 years, UHPC Ultra High
Performance Concrete has been used
worldwide in the offshore sector as
a foundation, repair and construction material.
In offshore wind power technology, UHPC
is used as a floating foundation construction.

Deep sea constructions with UHPC have
also been successfully tested down to a
depth of 3500 m / 11480ft. Together with a  
German university, we tested dome 
constructions with different concrete 
qualities and UHPC. Only UHPC was able 
to withstand the enormous water pressure.

Likewise, energy storage systems for

offshore wind turbines are currently being
developed, which consist of hollow concrete
balls measuring over 30 m in diameter,
which are sunk to a depth of 300 m. These
energy storage systems would also be ideal
for supplying energy to floating cities.

Living and working on water and under water
can be realized sustainably and without an
problems with UHPC Ultra High Performance
Concrete materials.

The first serious projects are already planned
and are about to be realized. International
architect groups are already working on
self-sufficient cities above and under water.
UHPC is an important building construction
material for the designs, which are designed for
extreme longevity with very little to no
maintenance.

The advantages are

• Absolute seawater resistance
• Extreme corrosion resistance
• Extreme compressive strength
• Extreme tensile strengths
• Almost any design geometry can be made
• Material combinations of all kinds are easily possible
• Installation methode same as standard concrete

HPC and UHPC test material and samples

Very often we are asked for standard HPC and UHPC test material or HPC and UHPC standard samples by our customers. But we don't have any standard patterns. An example will explain why this is so.

The HPC and UHPC materials developed and produced by us are used in architectural fields such as

• Facades
• Building structure
• Waterproof basement structures
• Roof structures
• Balcony constructions
• Garage constructions including floor coverings
• Bathroom interior
• Bedroom interior
• Kitchen interior
  
• Office interior
• Stair construction
• Tiles for walls, floors and ceilings
• Pools
• Open fireplaces
• Lamp design
• Furniture design
• Safety constructions
• Fire protection
• Wall plaster
• Floor coverings
• Earthquake protection
• Flood protection
• Walk-in safes
• Panic rooms
• Water term
• House boats
• Sewage systems
• Concretes made from recycled building materials
• Concretes with Co2 neutral aggregates
• Concretes for floating and subsea constructions
• Materials for the renovation of historic buildings
• Bridge constructions
• Floating constructions

There are 216 standard colors + probably just as many structure
variations + probably even more aggregate combinations.

Each user of our materials such as precast concrete plants, designers, construction companies, etc. have their own standards and standard samples.

However, if you cannot find what you would like for your project from the processors, we are very happy to help you. You just have to give us very specific details about what you want. With your specification we will make a sample for you.

I have to give you the same answer for the HPC and UHPC material samples for technical tests. We don't have any standard materials. We have HPC and UHPC materials that our customers around the world like to use, but customers just as often come and give us a technical specification for a material based on HPC or UHPC technology and then we develop this specified material. If the customer is satisfied, the material goes into production.

 

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UHPC Pavements in Multi-storey car parks impermeable and strong

In multi-storey car parks, paricular attention must be paid
to the following

• Constant vehicular traffic
• Chemical attack from oil, petrol and salt
• Rutting from continual driving along the same routes
• Braking
• Wear and tear from concerning traffic
• Spiked tyres
• Repeated freeze-thaw cycles
  

Floors in multi-storey car parks must therefore be able to withstand 

these stresses. Equally important, they must be impereable, preventing 

penetration of fluids or salt.

In designing a multi-storey car park, it is preferable to use a light but strong material to achive the most economical construction possible.

During construction, speed of installation and early trafficking are also important.

The key words for multi-storey car park projects are strength, impermeability and lightness.

 

UHPC TopLayer R (with reinforcement)
UHPC TopLayer R is recommended for particularly poor floor surfaces or for floors subject to high traffic loads.

UHPC TopLayer R is a combination of a special fiber-reinforced UHPC concrete and reinforcement mats.

UHPC Phalt
UHPC Phalt is a semi-flexible floor covering consisting of an asphalt supporting structure and UHPC Phalt binder as a filler. This combines the flexibility of asphalt with the strength and resilience of UHPC concrete.

 

 

 

Advantages of UHPC TopLayer and UHPC Phalt

• Very high bearing capacity
• Reistant to point loads
• Very high wear resistance.
• Minimal requrements for joints
• Impermeable
• Very good chemical resistance
• Slip resistance
• Level and smooth
• Rapid installation 

 

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UHPC for maximum safety and performance

Today, UHPC concrete is used as a construction
material all over the world for maximum safety
and performance. One example of this are the
transport tubes for the Hyperloop system.
Tubular elements made of UHPC concrete have
already been manufactured here for test purposes. 

UHPC concrete is constantly evolving in terms
of its technical material properties and application.
We expect further big changes in our UHPC
material development in the next few years,
which go far beyond what we have so far. Many
materials such as standard concrete or standard
steel will no longer be able to follow this.

WPE DK International

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UHPC and color in architecture and design

We are repeatedly asked in which standard colors

we offer our UHPC material qualities and our
answer has always been the same for years:
We do not have any standard UHPC colors.

Why? There are millions of different colors
and color materials so why pick a few and ignore
the others.

Conversely, we would like to ask our customers:
What color or color effect do you want? Based
on the color specification of our customers, we
then develop a UHPC with this color specification.
 

UHPC can be used to create an infinite number

of surfaces or color structures that influence
natural or artificial light or paint. In the end, a
unique, special construction or design is created.

UHPC binders with their nanoparticles can also
have an interesting influence on the color particles
and their effects. There are also a wide variety of
pigment materials.

So why standard when you can have so much more?

 

 

WPE DK International

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Luxury high end HiFi loudspeaker cabinet made of UHPC concrete

During the development and production of UHPC
material for a special machine foundation, the
extremely good damping qualities of UHPC were
discussed.
This feature is also highly appreciated by developers
and producers of high end Hi-Fi speakers.

We sat down with some of these sound aesthetes
and talked about the use of UHPC concrete in the
speaker cabinet. The discussion ended with the fact
that we started the next day with the development
of an optimal UHPC concrete for high-end 
loudspeaker cabinets.

The first achieved damping values ​​were measured
with 0.027. UHPC concrete has a high density
(up to 2900 kg/m3). The water / cement value is
sometimes less than 0.2.

The compressive strength can be chosen between 

140 and 240 MPa. The modulus of elasticity is

for the most of our UHPC products 70-80 GPa.
With UHPC Cast Binder you can cast extremely 

accurate. Only the quality of the form here limits.

With UHPC Cast we were able to offer the Hi-Fi 
and housing designer the possibility to choose any
structure and geometry. In addition, UHPC concrete
loudspeaker cabinets are shockproof and waterproof.

The UHPC showed in tests as far as we heard have
no resonance. We hope for more interests, because this
work was a lot of fun for us.

As we have heard, some Hi-Fi enthusiasts have now
made the first vinyl player for venyl records from
UHPC and are thrilled with the end results in design
and in the audio / sound result.

 

 

WPE DK International

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