Concrete Maturity Monitoring System

Technology Advances in Concrete Maturity

A WIRELESS SYSTEM

WAKE, Inc.
Sturgis, Michigan 800-588-6393
Contact: Richard Yesh email - ryesh@wakeinc.com
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Concrete Maturity Monitoring System

The Concrete Maturity Monitory System is the linking of two relatively new technologies.
Concrete Maturity Method Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

Concrete Maturity
Concrete Maturity allows you to track the increasing strength of concrete as it matures by monitoring the internal temperature of the concrete.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

RFID allows the user to read and write information to or from what we refer to as an RFID Tag. Using radio frequency you eliminate the need to have a clear line of sight (It will read right through the concrete).
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Components Of The System

Antenna Transceiver Transponder Software Portable Data Collection Device

Wireless Technology
Advantages
Wireless Programmable Data logging

Wireless VS Wires

Bury the RFID Tag. Cover it with concrete. Tag collects the temperature data. Retrieve data when applicable. Nothing to hook up! Nothing to destroy!
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and Reduction of destructive testing.

RFID Tag with External Probe

Columns & Heavy Structures

Portable Data Collection Device can be one of several units.

PC Laptop HP iPAC Unitech Portable LXE Portable and others
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Portable Data Collection Device

This is the Unitech. It is one of several portable devices that can be used with our Concrete Maturity Monitoring System, to collect the data.

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Andrew DeFinis P.E. of the Tony Angelo Cement Construction Co. is checking out one of the buried RFID tags from his pickup. The robust iQ32T RFID tag allows him to do this.

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This is the CONCRETE TYPES window used for the Nurse-Saul (Time Temp Factor) or the Arrhenius (Equivalent Age) Maturity Method. The screen allows input of test results in MPa or PSI.

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By selecting a tag this Temperature Window will provide a detailed view of the temperature log along with other statistical tag data.

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The graph shows 48 logging intervals at a time providing a visual of the temperature log.

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IRD Concrete Maturity Meter: Concrete Report

Time/Date 10/12/03 Tag ID Location 0.0.209.64 Ramp center

Concrete Summary:
Chronological Age: TTF: TTF datum temperature Strength Pour time 416.46 14029.3 -10 Deg C 5710 10/01/03 Hours Deg.C-Hrs Concrete psi

Temperature Log Summary:

Log Interval Start Time End Time Sample Count Average Temperature Highest Temperature Lowest Temperature 30 10/01/03 9:38 10/12/03 8:49 834 90.4 103.4 65.1 Minutes Local Local Degree F Degree F Degree F
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IRD Concrete Maturity Meter: Concrete Report

Time/Date 10/12/03 Tag ID Location 0.0.209.64 Ramp center Mix = HC Special PSI = 6500 Not part of Report Time 09:50 12:20 12:20 12:20 12:20 12:20 12:20 12:20 12:20 TTF Deg. C-Hrs 34.7 809.0 1669.8 1737.8 1914.7 2091.7 2280.6 2475.5 4874.3 Strength psi 0 0 745 1272 1870 2180 2733 3065 4312
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Temperature Log Data

Tag Temperature F 65.1 97.9 103.4 101.4 99.5 93.7 88.3 84.9 79.6 Date 10/01/03 10/01/03 10/02/03 10/03/03 10/04/03 10/05/03 10/06/03 10/07/03 10/12/03

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Maturity Monitoring is Essential!

Actual job site - March 17, 2001 @ 7:30AM - ambient temperature 38 F

The Deck Is Hot

The Cylinders are not!

18 Curing conditions of deck: Heated and covered with full jacketing.

Advantages with RFID Wireless

Recorded temperature accuracy is +/- 1 F Data is available real time (right now) Constantly monitoring the In-Situ temperature Temperature monitoring can continue for years Data can be transferred, analyzed and archived Documents proof of quality assurance Eliminate concerns of weather problems Eliminate concerns of construction problems
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CONCRETE

Concrete of a given mix at the same maturity has the same strength, regardless of the temperature and time history that made up that maturity.

Concrete Temperature

Concrete Temperature

Cold

Hot
Concrete Strength Time

M2

M1
Time

M Maturity (EA or TTF)20

M1=M2=M

Cost Advantages
A construction project manager explained the savings on large projects this way; for every hour saved at the beginning of a project, multiple the times saved by six for total savings at the end of the project.
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Cylinders & Beams What do they really cost?

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Transporting and handling Labor Intensive ?

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MATURITY TESTING Today

The construction industry relies heavily on lab/field cured cylinder testing to determine strength of curing concrete.

Tomorrow
With the advances in concrete maturity using established ASTM Standards - in-place concrete strength can be determined accurately in real time.

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Tag # 1 Lab Cured Cylinder Tag # 2 Field Cured Cylinder Tag # 3 6 Embedded in-place Concrete

Comparison of Strength Gain for First 3 days

6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 0 1 2 3
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1 2 3 4 5 6

S tren g th - P S I

Curing time - Days

The use of concrete maturity will allow you to launch major gains in the completion of your projects, assuring you are maintaining the quality your customer requires, while providing the level your firm wishes to deliver.

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The use of RFID is a highly innovative method to take the science of concrete to a new level.

This is precisely why we received the very prestigious 2004 NOVA award, presented by The Construction Innovation Forum (CIF). 27

For further information on our Concrete Maturity Monitoring System

WAKE, Inc.
Sturgis, Michigan 800-588-6393
Contact: Richard Yesh

email - ryesh@wakeinc.com
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