Abstract: A system for applying a building material, including: a movement device for modifying a site of application in a space; a first component of the building material; a second component of the building material; and a mixer for mixing the first component and the second component, the mixer including a drive and a mixing chamber provided with a stirrer shaft and a conveyor device, the conveyor device being designed as a screw conveyor with windings, and the mixer being adapted to the building material.

Abstract: An insulating element for insulating a structural element in a motor vehicle, including a carrier and an expandable material arranged on the carrier. The carrier has at least one dome and is designed in such a manner that, when stacking a plurality of identical insulating elements, respective domes of adjacent insulating elements engage in one another.

Abstract: A polyurethane composition includes a first component wherein a polyol mixture containing at least one polyol P1 having an average molar mass of 800-30,000 g/mol, the polyol being a polyhydroxy-functional fat and/or oil, or a chemical modification of natural fats and/or oils; preferably at least one polyol selected from the group of polyester polyols and polyether polyols; and a second component wherein at least one aliphatic polyisocyanate I, and at least one filler. The composition includes a tin catalyst for the reaction of hydroxyl and isocyanate groups, forming a thio complexes, and at least one compound including at least one thiol group, wherein the molar ratio of all thiol groups of all metal atoms of the at least one tin catalyst K (T/K) lies between 2.2:1 and 40:1, and the molar ratio of all NCO groups of the at least one tin catalyst K (NCO/K) lies between 50 and 1500.

Abstract: A thermoplastic composition includes at least one thermoplastic vulcanizate, at least one thermoplastic polyolefin elastomer, and at least one propylene copolymer, wherein the at least one thermoplastic polyolefin elastomer has a flexural modulus at 23° C. of not more than 750 MPa and wherein the at least one propylene copolymer is a propylene-ethylene copolymer. A sealing device includes a waterproofing layer obtained by using the thermoplastic composition, a method for producing a sealing device, and a method for waterproofing a substrate.

Abstract: A device for reinforcing, sealing, or damping a structural element in a motor vehicle including a support which has multiple cells, wherein each cell surrounds a cavity. Each cavity is at least partially delimited by walls in each direction, wherein each cell has an extension in length, height, and width between 5 mm and 100 mm. An outer surface of the support can be connected to the structural element by an adhesive.

Abstract: A device for adding and mixing an additive into a hydraulically settable mixture includes a tubular cavity for conducting the hydraulically settable mixture through in an intended flow direction, wherein a static flow-influencing element, in which there is an aperture that leads into the cavity and is intended for introducing the additive, projects into the cavity.

Abstract: A method for producing a single-layer waterbar, use of a single-layer extruded profile as a waterbar, a method for sealing an internal or an external joint between two sections of concrete, and sealed construction; wherein the production method includes extruding a melt-processed starting composition through an extruder die to form an extruded profile, wherein the starting composition includes 35-75 wt.-% of at least one polymer and 25-65 wt.-% of at least one solid particulate filler.

Abstract: A reinforcing element for reinforcing a structural element in a motor vehicle includes: a carrier element which is produced by a pultrusion method and which has a longitudinal axis which, when in use, extends substantially along a longitudinal axis of the structural element, wherein the carrier element has a plurality of outer surfaces extending in the direction of the longitudinal axis; and an adhesive for bonding the carrier element to the structural element; and at least one wall, which is arranged on an outer surface; wherein the adhesive is arranged at least on the same outer surface of the carrier element as the at least one wall.

Abstract: A method for increasing the workability of a binder composition including calcined clay, limestone, and Portland cement. The method includes a step of adding an admixture comprising at least one PCE and at least one additive selected from the group including sugar acids, sugars, sugar alcohols, and hydroxycarboxylic acids. The invention also relates to an admixture to be used in said method and hardenable compositions, especially concrete and mortar, obtainable by the method.

Abstract: A two-component polyurethane composition including a polyol component and a polyisocyanate component, wherein the polyol component comprises at least one polyester polyol A1 based on dimer fatty acids and/or dimer fatty alcohols having an OH number of 65-350 mg KOH/g, at least one polybutadiene polyol A2 and at least one alkoxylated alkylenediamine A3. The polyurethane composition has high strength and only a minor dependence of the mechanical properties, especially strength, on temperature, especially in the range from ?40° C. to +100° C.

Abstract: A curing agent for epoxy resins has N-benzylethane-1,2-diamine and N,N?-dibenzylethane-1,2-diamine in a weight ratio in the range from 65/35 to 95/5. The curing agent is easy to prepare, thins epoxy resins particularly well, and enables low-emission epoxy resin products that have good workability and a long pot-life, cure reliably and surprisingly fast and can be walked on after a short time, in particular even in cold conditions. Coatings of particularly high mechanical grade, with a high surface quality and a minimal tendency to yellowing, can thus be produced. Epoxy resins of this type are particularly suitable for coating floors.

Abstract: A polyurea composition containing monomeric diisocyanates in an amount of max. 0.5 wt.% and consisting of a first component containing a primary, aromatic diamine and a second component containing an isocyante-group-containing polyether urethane polymer containing monomeric diisocyantes in an amount of max. 0.5 wt.% and an aliphatic polyisocyanate with an NCO content of 8 to 25 wt.%.

Abstract: A moisture-curing, one-component polyurethane composition, containing at least one isocyanate group-containing polyether urethane polymer obtained by reacting at least one polyisocyanate with at least one polyether polyol; at least one isocyanurate-containing trimer of 1-isocyanato-3,3,5-trimethyl-5-isocyanatomethyl cyclohexane or 1,6-hexane diisocyanate in a quantity of between 1 and 4 percent by weight in the composition; at least one polyether with blocked hydroxyl groups, which is free of isocyanate groups, as a plasticiser, in a quantity of more than 5 percent by weight in the composition. Where moisture is excluded, the moisture-curing polyurethane composition has good storage stability, good processability and good thermal stability, and surprisingly good adhesive effect on highly scratch-resistant, hydrophobic automotive paints, and no pretreatment with adhesion promoters, primers or activators is needed. It is especially suitable for use as an elastic adhesive in the production of means of transport.

Abstract: A free-flowing powder composition includes at least one substrate having pores and an external surface between said pores, said surface functionalized with at least one accelerator for a hydraulic setting composition, said accelerator being liquid, hygroscopic, or deliquescent, and wherein after 15 minutes of immersion of free-flowing powder composition in water at 20° C. at least 80% in weight of said accelerator is solubilized, said free-flowing powder composition being immersed in an amount of water sufficient so that the saturation concentration of said accelerator cannot be reached. There is also a method for preparing said free-flowing powder composition. The use of said free-flowing powder composition as an additive for mortar or concrete composition provides an accelerating effect, an anti-ageing effect and an anti-dusting effect.

Abstract: A system provides building materials including a packaging, a lifting device and a mixing and conveying device. The packaging can be positioned by the lifting device via the mixing and conveying device in such a way that a total height of the system is less than 230 cm.

Abstract: A sealing element, in particular for sealing a frame element with respect to a building component, having a sandwich structure, including: a metallic primary layer which is creped at least in certain regions to form an elongation reserve of the sealing element; a secondary layer; and a bitumen-including filling layer which is arranged between the primary layer and the secondary layer.

Abstract: A wing profile has a glass package including several glass plates, wherein the wing profile has a reinforcement element made of plastic, which substantially is mounted on the wing profile below the entire support surface of the glass package. Between the reinforcement element and the glass package, a cohesive connection is provided by a plurality of adhesive elements.

Abstract: A waterproofing system including a functional layer S1 including 10-80 wt.-% of at least one thermoplastic polymer P1 and 10-80 wt.-% of at least one solid particulate filler F, wherein the surface of the functional layer S1 has an Auto-correlation length of waviness W(Sal) of at least 50 ?m. Further, a method for producing a waterproofing system and to the use of a mechanical surface treatment step to increase the waviness factor, determined as the ratio of the Root mean square roughness of waviness W(Sq) to the square of the Auto-correlation length of waviness W(Sal), of a surface of a functional layer S1.

Abstract: An accelerator for mineral binder compositions, especially for mortars or concrete, including: aluminium sulfate, at least one pozzolane, optionally at least one defoamer, and water. The accelerator is particularly useful for shotcrete, in the field of free-forming construction, or for additive manufacturing.

Abstract: A hydraulic binder including (in % by dry weight); A. at least 50 of at least one ground and granulated blast-furnace slag; B. more than 5 of at least one calcium aluminate cement and/or of at least one calcium sulfoaluminate cement; C. more than 5 of at least one source of sulfate ions; D. between 1 and 5 of Ca(OH)2 and/or Portland cement; E. between 0.01 and 1 of at least one alkali metal carbonate; F. and at least one alkalifying reagent consisting of at least one alkali metal carbonate and/or bicarbonate, different from E; under the following conditions: (i) amount of C allows sulfate ions of C to react with B and A; (ii) the amount of F sufficiently causes a reaction with D in water resulting in a wet formulation with a pH not less than 12, for a water-to-mortar mixing rate between 10 and 35% by weight.