Abrasion Resistance Thesis

Dr Nicholas Papenfus is the director of Dams for Africa. In 2002 he submitted a doctoral thesis on the abrasion resistance of concrete.

From time to time requests are received for information relating to this work. For this reason links are provided to the abstracts and concluding chapters of Vol 1 and Vol 2 (see below). Furthermore selected chapters that are considered particularly useful, as well as appendix U, have been included by way of links to pdf files (see below).
For more information contact Dr Papenfus at nicholas@damsforafrica.com

Abrasion pages:

To Abstract Vol 1
To Abstract Vol 2
To Conclusion Vol 1
To Conclusion Vol 2

PDF files:
To Chapter 5 Vol 1 (4.3 MB)
To Chapter 8 Vol 1 (11.8 MB)
To Chapter 2 Vol 2 (1.4 MB)
To Chapter 4 Vol 2 (720 KB)
To Appendix U
To Outline (21 KB)
To Title page (7 KB)

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(1) Dr Papenfus recording the wear in concrete pavers.

(2) An abrasion-wear test in progress.

(3) A test site where 48 colour coded mix designs were tested under traffic over a period of seven years.