Watertight Expansion Joints and Construction Sealants by EMSEAL

Nosing Material or Header Material

Thermaflex with Emcrete nosing material installed in Zurich Insurance Parking Garage.

Thermaflex with Emcrete nosing or header material, protects joint edges from traffic impact.

Expansion joint nosing or header material is a resin (usually polyurethane based) with aggregate additives that is mixed and poured in the field into blockouts on each side of a structural expansion joint gap. The material when cured is less rigid than the adjacent concrete substrate and as a result is more forgiving of traffic impact and suddenly applied vehicle loads. A high performance nosing material should be conservatively loaded with aggregates so as to preserve flexibility and avoid brittleness.

 

 

Used as a bedding material beneath cover plate systems, a conservatively-aggregate-loaded nosing or header material can be used as a leveling course to take any play out of the plates while additionally serving to absorb the loud bangs typical of cover plates mounted directly to hard, uneven, concrete surfaces.

Nosing as used with EMSEAL’s SJS

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