ABSTRACT

There have been quite a number of books, articles, seminars and conferences on repairing concrete and the purpose of this chapter is not to abstract the known data but to describe the author’s personal experience, ranging from laboratory testing through to precast works repair and culminating in management of repair contracts. The author avoids the temptation to divide repairs up into so-called structural and non-structural categories as the division between them is tenuous to the point of invisibility. There are some structural aspects to even the smallest repair. If one needs to divide repairs up into categories one could use the following two groups, as each relates to separate forms of damage.