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US 5,296,187 AGranted
Methods for manufacturing columnar structures
AssigneeRibbon Technology Corporation
InventorLloyd E. Hackman
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Abstract
A method for manufacturing a reinforced cementitious columnar structure including: providing a mold having a cavity which corresponds to a shape and size of the columnar structure; placing at least one nonwoven metal fiber mat around the periphery of the cavity; filling the cavity with a slurry of cementitious material containing aggregate having a particle size greater than the size of the interstitial voids of the fiber mat; curing the slurry of cementitious material; and removing the mold.
Claims6
A method for manufacturing a reinforced cementitious columnar structure comprising:
- providing a mold having a cavity which corresponds to a shape and size of said columnar structure;
- placing at least one nonwoven metal fiber mat into said cavity around a periphery thereof so as to form a core volume internally of said mat;
- introducing a slurry of cementitious material containing a predetermined amount of aggregate having a particle size greater than a size of interstitial voids of said fiber mat into said core volume, said aggregate and said cementitious material filling said core volume and said cementitious material infiltrating and encapsulating said fiber mat, and said aggregate remaining within said core volume;
- curing said slurry of cementitious material to form said reinforced cementitious columnar structure;
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- separating said mold from said reinforced cementitious columnar structure.
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