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Are epoxy resins widely used in concrete construction and repair?

Q. Are epoxy resins widely used in concrete construction and repair?

 

A. Epoxy resins are used with concrete in the form of coatings, repair materials, grouts, bonding agents, paints, adhesives, epoxy mortars, sealers, penetrating sealers, wearing surfaces, and as admixtures to hydraulic cement concrete to make epoxy polymer-modified concrete (ACI 503.7).

 

References: SP-1(02); ACI 562-21; ACI 503.7; ACI 548.6R-19; ACI SPEC-548.9-21; ACI SPEC-548.13-21; ACI 548.14-14; ACI SPEC-548.15-20

Topics in Concrete: Epoxy in Concrete; Polymer Concrete; Repair of Concrete