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US 2001/0032430 A1Published application
Reinforced structural member
AssigneesMouchel Consulting Limited, Fiberline Composites A/S
InventorsVahigh Peshkam, Polycarp Samuel Fashole-Luke, Michael Brettargh Leeming, Henrik Thorning, Eric Syndergaard Knudsen
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Abstract
An elongate strutural member comprising a structural outer shell and at least one arcuate or diagonal reinforcing member within, for use in structural, semi-structural or cladding applications to carry floor loading, walkway loading, wheeled loading, pressure loading in buildings, bridges and other loading carrying applications.
Claims26
An elongate structural member comprising:
- an elongate outer shell having first and second opposing major faces and first and second side faces edges of the major faces and the side faces parallel to the longitudinal axis of said member being joined together to form a four-sided structure and the widths of said major faces perpendicular to said longitudinal axis being greater that the widths of said side faces;
- and
- a laminar reinforcing member contained within and extending substantially the entire length of said elongate outer shell;
- wherein:
- said reinforcing member comprises first and second integral parts, said first and second parts emending from spaced apart positions on said first major face to meet at or near a medial part of said second major face;
- said outer shell and said reinforcing member are moulded or pultruded in an integral piece from a fibre reinforced composite material;
- and
- said outer shell has at least one engaging recess on one of said major faces.
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A member according to claim I wherein said length is at least 2.5 meters.
An elongate structural member comprising
- an outer shell formed by first and second flanges and first and second external webs joined to have a cross-section in the form of a parallelogram;
- said first and second external webs being substantially mutually parallel and inclined at an acute angle to said first and second flanges, which are substantially mutually parallel;
- and
- a reinforcing web extending between said first and second flanges within said outer shell, said reinforcing web being inclined to said flanges at the same acute angle as said first and second external webs but in the opposite direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.