What are the effects of chloride and salts on polymer overlays?
The Virginia Transportation Research Council’s Michael Sprinkel, a national expert in the design, construction and evaluation of epoxy overlays, notes that SafeLane™ Surface Overlay provides all the benefits of standard epoxy overlays. Research has shown that virtually no chloride that is applied to the deck surface passes through to the polymer overlay. He adds that experts have never seen, based on 30 years of experience, deterioration of the epoxy overlay as the result of any kind of pre-stall action or penetration of chloride into the overlay, and that similar results are expected with SafeLane overlay.
