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    7.3 Honeycombs in Concrete

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    Honeycombs are hollow spaces in concrete caused by improper vibration and workability during pouring. They appear as cavities or pockets and resemble a bee's nest. Improper vibration, insufficient cover over reinforcement bars, overly stiff concrete mixtures, and congested reinforcement in areas like beam-column joints make honeycombs more likely. Honeycombs weaken the structure and allow water ingress, accelerating corrosion of reinforcement. To remedy honeycombs, affected areas should be broken out and re-poured after applying a grout to bond new concrete. Proper vibration and consolidation techniques can help prevent honeycombs during pouring.

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    Honeycombs are hollow spaces in concrete caused by improper vibration and workability during pouring. They appear as cavities or pockets and resemble a bee's nest. Improper vibration, insufficient cover over reinforcement bars, overly stiff concrete mixtures, and congested reinforcement in areas like beam-column joints make honeycombs more likely. Honeycombs weaken the structure and allow water ingress, accelerating corrosion of reinforcement. To remedy honeycombs, affected areas should be broken out and re-poured after applying a grout to bond new concrete. Proper vibration and consolidation techniques can help prevent honeycombs during pouring.

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    Honeycombs are hollow spaces in concrete caused by improper vibration and workability during pouring. They appear as cavities or pockets and resemble a bee's nest. Improper vibration, insufficient cover over reinforcement bars, overly stiff concrete mixtures, and congested reinforcement in areas like beam-column joints make honeycombs more likely. Honeycombs weaken the structure and allow water ingress, accelerating corrosion of reinforcement. To remedy honeycombs, affected areas should be broken out and re-poured after applying a grout to bond new concrete. Proper vibration and consolidation techniques can help prevent honeycombs during pouring.

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    7.3 Honeycombs in Concrete

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    Ariana Cabellon
    Honeycombs are hollow spaces in concrete caused by improper vibration and workability during pouring. They appear as cavities or pockets and resemble a bee's nest. Improper vibration, insufficient cover over reinforcement bars, overly stiff concrete mixtures, and congested reinforcement in areas like beam-column joints make honeycombs more likely. Honeycombs weaken the structure and allow water ingress, accelerating corrosion of reinforcement. To remedy honeycombs, affected areas should be broken out and re-poured after applying a grout to bond new concrete. Proper vibration and consolidation techniques can help prevent honeycombs during pouring.

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    o Honeycombs in Concrete – Their Causes and

    Remedies

    Honeycombs are hollow spaces and cavities left in concrete mass on the surface
    or inside the mass where concrete could not reach. These look like honey bees
    nest. Improper vibration and workability of concrete are main causes of
    honeycombs in concrete.

    Honeycombs which are on sides are visible to naked eyes and can be detected
    easily as soon shuttering is removed. Honeycombs which are inside mass of
    concrete can only be detected by advanced techniques like ultrasonic testing
    etc.

    Causes of Honeycombs in Concrete

    Honeycomb is due to non-reaching of concrete to all places due to which


    cavities and hollow pockets are created, main reasons are:
    1. Improper vibration during concrete.

    2. Less cover to reinforcement bars

    3. Use of very stiff concrete (this can be avoided by controlling water as per slump
    test).

    4. Places like junction of beam to beam to column and to one or more beams are
    the typical spots where honeycombs are observed. This is due to jumbling of
    reinforcement of beams and column rods at one place; special attention is
    required at such place during concreting and vibrating.

    5. Presence of more percentage of bigger size of aggregate in concrete also


    prevents concrete to fill narrow spaces between the reinforcement rods.
    Remedies for Honeycombs in Concrete

    Strictly speaking wherever honeycombs are observed in concrete, the affected


    area should be broken and the portion should be re-concreted after applying
    grouting chemical to the old surface.

    Honeycombs as a defect not only reduces the load bearing capacity but water
    finds an easy way to reinforcement rods and rusting and corrosion starts.

    Corrosion is a process which continues through reinforcement rods even in good


    concrete, this result in losing grip between rods and concrete, which is very
    dangerous to safety and life of concrete structures.

    Reinforced concrete structures have failed within 20 or 30 years of their


    construction due to honeycombs, which is less than half their projected life.
    Especially no risk should be taken in case of columns, machine foundations, rafts,
    beams etc., where breaking and recasting is the only best way.

    In case of honeycombs on surface pressure grouting with cement based


    chemicals which are non-shrinkable can be adopted after taking opinion of the
    designer and acting as per his advice.

    It will not be out of context to point out that contractors and their supervisors are
    in the habit of hiding honeycombs by applying super facially cement plaster on
    the honeycombs, hence site engineer must be very cautious.
    At places of junction of columns and beams concrete with strictly 20mm and
    down aggregates should be used with slightly more water and cement to avoid
    honeycombs.

    Taping with wooden hammer the sides of shuttering from outside during
    concreting and vibrating will help minimizing honeycombs to a great extent in
    case of columns and beams.

    Use of thinner needle say 25mm or less with vibrator at intricate places of
    concreting will also help in reducing honeycombs.

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