Comparison of Continuous High-Pressure Generated and Pulsing Low-Pressure Generated Water Jets on Concrete

The concrete samples with various erosion states were disintegrated by pure continuous water jets generated from pressure 380 MPa in the Liquid jet laboratory at the VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava. Simultaneously, the identical concrete samples were tested by pulsing water jets generated by low pressure 30 MPa in the Department of Material Disintegration at the Institute of Geonics of the AS CR. The erosion states of samples were prepared by application of several laboratory techniques simulating the concrete aging under the natural conditions due to the real applications in practice. They were prepared at the 127 Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components of the Brno University of Technology. The influence of the erosion state on the disintegration rate was tested and the surface topography was studied. The comparison of both the depth of penetration and the volume disintegration ratio regarding the input power is performed