Bridge coating with polyurea

Traffic in Germany and throughout Central Europe is increasing every year. The load on roads and bridges is increasing with each passing day. Anyone who has driven over a bridge knows the feeling of wishing it hadn’t been built by the cheapest contractor with the cheapest parts. Mechanical loads, de-icing salts as well as exhaust gases gnaw away at bridges. Corrosion is the enemy of a stable bridge. This is where a bridge coating with polyurea comes in.

Steel is strong, but very vulnerable to corrosion – this also applies to the structural steel used in bridges. The plan to protect the endangered components in the long term increasingly includes coating with polyurea. This creates a durable, wear-resistant and, above all, weatherproof solution for bridges. Polyurea also plays a key role in bridge rehabilitation, ensuring that cracks in asphalt and concrete, for example, can be permanently bridged.

Very flexible bridge coating with polyurea

Polyurea as a material is also ideal for bridge coating because it has high elasticity and flexibility even after rapid curing. This applies above all to thermal and mechanical stresses.

Our experts perform bridge coating with polyurea not only in the area of the roadway. Coatings are also applied to the abutment and bridge piers. This means that these sensitive components are also optimally protected against corrosion.

In addition to bridge coatings, polyurea is also used for exposed walls, parking decks, fountains, ponds and even swimming pools.

The bridge coating with polyurea is very temperature resistant

For bridge coating applications, polyurea can do some very positive things. Polyurea is completely temperature-resistant in bridge applications in the temperature range between -40 °C and +110 °C. Mechanical impacts, scratches and abrasion are compensated by the polyurea bridge coating. Other advantages include:

Polyurea is resistant to oils, gasoline, diesel and de-icing salt solutions.
Polyurea is weather resistant.
Polyurea is impermeable to water.
Polyurea bridges cracks in the bridge substructure.
Polyurea prevents the deposition of organic material and is also root resistant.