TY - CONF A1 - Ramge, Peter A1 - Kühne, Hans-Carsten A1 - Meng, Birgit T1 - Properties of repair mortars - potentials and risks of a tailor-made mixture proportioning T2 - Concrete-Workshop 'Performance-based specifications for concrete' (Proceedings) N2 - Despite the numerous possibilities to influence the properties of repair mortars by modifications of the mixture proportioning, it is almost impossible to change an individual property without influencing other mortar properties. When optimising a mixture, it has to be decided for each individual case, which of the mortar properties needs to be treated with the highest priority. Most properties can be altered by several different measures, which may vary in effectiveness, side effects and cost efficiency. As the prevention of shrinkage induced constraining cracks is crucial for the durability and Service life of a concrete repair task, in the presented paper special attention is paid to the influences on the mortar’s shrinkage behaviour. On the basis of parameter studies it is shown, how it may be beneficial in certain cases to accept the worsening of some general properties if by this measure another property, which is essential for the individual application task, can be enhanced significantly. In general a tailor-made approach for the mixture proportioning seems beneficial but due to the complexity of the constituents’ interactions in repair mortars, it bears a high risk of unexpected malfunctions. T2 - Concrete-Workshop 'Performance-based specifications for concrete' CY - Leipzig, Germany DA - 14.06.2011 KW - Repair mortar KW - Concrete rehabilitation KW - Repair systems KW - Polymer cement mortar (PCC) KW - Sprayed polymer cement mortar (SPCC) PY - 2011 SN - 978-3-9814523-0-3 SP - 319 EP - 329 AN - OPUS4-23985 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -