Method of repairing cracked concrete
OwnerDonald E. Wheatleyinventor
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Abstract
A method of repairing concrete having a crack, including cutting an elongated slot across the crack. Inserting an elongated rigid grid into the slot to extend across the crack, the rigid grid having a length dimension greater than a width dimension which is greater than a thickness dimension, the rigid grid defining a plurality of openings there through that extend toward opposites sides of the slot; and adhering the elongated rigid grid in the slot with an adhesive that flows into at least some of the plurality of openings. The rigid grid can be formed from a rigidified fabric grid, a wire mesh, or metal.
Claims18
A method of repairing concrete having a crack, comprising:
- cutting an elongated slot across the crack, the slot having a depth greater than a width of the slot;
- inserting an elongated rigidified fabric grid into the slot to extend across the crack, the rigidified fabric grid having a length dimension greater than a width dimension which is greater than a thickness dimension, the rigidified fabric grid defining a plurality of openings there through that extend toward opposites sides of the slot;
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- adhering the elongated rigidified fabric grid in the slot with an adhesive that flows into at least some of the plurality of openings, wherein the rigidified fabric grid includes a plurality of laterally spaced fiber bundles extending in a direction of the length dimension and a plurality of longitudinally spaced fiber bundles in a direction of the width dimension.
A method of repairing concrete having a crack, comprising:
- cutting an elongated slot across the crack, the slot having a depth greater than a width of the slot;
- inserting an elongated rigid grid into the slot to extend across the crack, the rigid grid having a length dimension greater than a width dimension which is greater than a thickness dimension, the rigid grid defining a plurality of openings there through that extend toward opposites sides of the slot;
- and
- adhering the elongated rigid grid in the slot with an adhesive that flows into at least some of the plurality of openings, wherein the rigid grid includes a plurality of laterally spaced fiber bundles extending in a direction of the length dimension and a plurality of longitudinally spaced fiber bundles in a direction of the width dimension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.