Slickcoat™
Slickcoat ™ is an abrasion resistant silicone epoxy coating that is applied to piles prior to driving in order to reduce the negative skin friction when downdrag from the soil is a concern. This water based coating can also be applied to drilled shaft casings and sheet piles in order to enhance penetration, extraction, and maintenance while possessing excellent bond breaking characteristics.
Slickcoat™ is a great substitute for bitumen coating which can often be unreliable, costly, hazardous to work with, and difficult to maintain on the pile surface during driving, especially under high temperatures.
Construction Benefits
- Apply with conventional equipment
- Excellent bond breaking characteristics
- Cleans up with water
- Water based, the environment is protected since toxins, chemicals, and harmful metals are not leached into the ecosystem as with bitumen coatings
- Bonds to pile or casing
- Surfaces stay clean reducing maintenance costs
- Durable
- Waterproof in a cured state
- Stays in place even during hot weather conditions
- Highly resistant to corrosion and chemicals common to construction
- Provides excellent friction reduction between the earth and piling
Advantages
- Saves valuable time
- Improved ease of installation, and an expeditious extraction process
- Realize substantial friction reduction
- Reduces uplift
- Environmentally Friendly
- Durable abrasion resistance
- Prolongs the life of piles, sheets and casings
- Reduces peripheral anomaly activity in drilled shaft construction by creating an excellent plane between the drilled shaft casing and the cast-in-place concrete
- Reduce maintenance costs
- Reduce tidal friction on submerged piling
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