Proceedings pro027 : International RILEM Symposium on Building Joint Sealants

From 18-19 May 1988, an international symposium on building joint sealants was held in Boras, Sweden. The symposium was organised by the RILEM Technical Committee 66-BJS (Building JointSealants) and the Swedish Testing Institute (Statens Provningsanstalt).

The importance of sealants in modern construction engineering cannot be ignored. Continuing developments in construction techniques, such as the trend towards modular construction, the use of curtain wall facades and new glazing techniques in high-rise building construction, constantly involve building joint sealants in new applications and thereby contribute to the increasing expansion of their use. Against a background of international efforts to harmonize testing and approval of building materials and structures, the RILEM TC 66-BJS ‘Building Joint Sealants’ has been looking for ways of bringing together the experience gathered in the application and testing of building joint sealants in various countries, some of whom have been using sealants for up to 30 years.

The objectives of the symposium were thus stated as follows: to exchange experience and knowledge of sealant use in the most important areas of construction engineering, to report on the work of the RILEM 66-BJS committee and research conducted by the Statens Provningsanstalt, and to create a basis for future work in the field of building joint sealants. More than 50 participants from the USA, Europe and Japan heard a total of 23 plenary lecturers speak on the following subjects:
- Experience in Service; Movement Capability; Application and Repair
- Horizontal Surfaces; Civil Engineering; Effects of Water
- Structural Glazing; Insulating Glass Sealants

Papers presented at the 1988 symposium were never published. As there is still a scientific and technical interest in these papers, Andreas Wolf, former Secretary of this RILEM TC 66-BJS, offered to gather most of these papers, resulting in the present on-line edition.

I do hope that these proceedings will be a valuable contribution to the dissemination of the scientificknowledge in this area

Contents

Session I: Experience in Service; Movement Capability; Application and Repair

Session II: Horizontal Surfaces; Civil Engineering; Effects of Water

Session III: Structural Glazing; Insulating Glass Sealants