Cracked Tilt-up Wall Panels Repaired with Glass Fabric

Compton, California

Perhaps the best testimony to the high quality of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) products is that our competitors prefer using our products over their own when it comes to fixing their own facilities. (Mitsubishi is a supplier of FRP products for repair and retrofit of structures.)

A number of tilt-up wall panels in the Mitsubishi warehouse in southern California were cracked. Rather than fixing the walls by crack injection, the project engineer recommended using glass fabric to cover the cracked regions. The 12,000 square feet of fabric was applied in strips, leaving 2–3 feet of space between each two consecutive strips. This resulted in significant cost savings compared to crack injection, while covering all cracks and providing significant strength for the walls.

The completed walls were painted and as can be seen in this slide, it is difficult to tell apart the repaired portions of the wall form the unrepaired parts.

This project was completed in November 1996.

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