Mortar Spraying WorkerQuality Control

Let's Try a Crack Experiment (Part 1) | Investigating the Cause

2020/03/15

Hello, everyone.

This is Enta.

Crack Test

One of our employees made this for us the other day!

Do you understand?

This!

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For those of you who are serious about learning about slopes!

Did that ring a bell?

I've been meaning to do this for a while, but I just haven't been able to find the time to make this box.

Now you can perform a crack test.

 

We'll apply the spray under the same conditions using the same materials.

We will compare plastic and steel spacers.

I'll also make one without a spacer.

Crack Test

We don't actually need to use that many spacers, but we'll place a few extra just in case.

For this project, we will use a 800 mm × 800 mm piece that is 100 mm thick, with 100 mm spacers.

I'm thinking of using a trowel on the surface.

The reason I say this is that I believe, if the conditions are kept the same, the conditions that make cracks more likely to form would become more pronounced.

 

Now it's just a matter of figuring out when and where to do the work, lol.

It would be great if we could do it in April.

After that, I'll just leave it alone for a while and see what happens.

I'm looking forward to it.

 

See you later.

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