Deterioration of post-tensioned concrete buildings is difficult to diagnose and repair. These proprietary structures often reveal very little about their true condition until failure is evident. In ...

thick cast-in-place concrete slabs at the 12th and 16th floors. Existing hotel tower slabs that had not been demolished were hung from the new post-tensioned super-truss, and the new truss also ...

Thus contractors can’t use calcium chloride for post-tensioned concrete slabs-on-ground or slabs containing aluminum conduit or other aluminum embedments. Exposure Category C addresses chloride ...