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title: Overcoming Bad Breaks With The REBEL Sensor®
description: "See how REBEL® Sensors provided real-time concrete strength data to support risk assessment and insurance validation for a bridge project, ensuring safety, efficiency, and financial protection. 🌉🔍 #SmartInfrastructure"
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# Overcoming Bad Breaks With The REBEL Sensor®

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Industry

Concrete Construction

Challenge

The contractor was struggling with low flex beam strength and variance between cylinders and core samples.

Results

Cylinder 32-day Strength* = 5.2K psi 32-Day Core = 6.5K psi Sensor 32-Day Strength = 7.2k psi. Flex Beams measured <400psi. REBEL® Sensors were used to prove that the contractor’s results were acceptable, given low flex beam strength and variance between cylinder breaks and core samples.

Key Product

REBEL® Sensors

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$180K+

Replacement Cost of Bridge

$1.7K

REBEL® Sensor and Datalogger Cost

$178K+

Total Savings for the Project

 

 

## About the Project

28-day Target Strength= 4K psi cylinders and 550 psi flex beams

A bridge in Indiana on I-69

~ 90 yards of reinforced concrete

6 REBEL Sensors placed in the concrete

Cylinders taken at 1, 4, 7, 14, and 28 days

> The REBEL System was deployed, and real-time strength data was provided to prove the results were acceptable and that the bridge could be opened.

## The Results

Cylinder 32-day strength =5.2K psi

32-day core= 6.5K psi

Sensor 32-day strength = 7.2K psi

Flex Beams measured < 400 psi

![I69 Case Study Strength](https://resources.wavelogix.tech/hs-fs/hubfs/Case%20Study/I69%20Case%20Study%20Strength.png?width=540&height=415&name=I69%20Case%20Study%20Strength.png)

 

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