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US 8,871,657 B2Granted
Method of manufacture of a composite concrete article
AssigneeUniversity of Ulster
InventorsPatricia Clare Belford, Ruth Ellen Morrow
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a composite concrete article comprising forming a textile structure, removing material from regions of the textile structure to create voids in the textile structure and incorporating the textile structure into a body of wet uncured concrete such that the concrete flows into the voids created in the textile structure, embedding the textile structure into the concrete, whereby the textile structure defines at least a portion of a surface of the cured concrete article.
Claims11
A method of manufacturing a composite concrete article, said method comprising:
- forming a textile structure from a mixture of at least two different fibres;
- removing material from regions of the textile structure by a removal process Preferentially removing one of said fibres from said regions to create voids in the textile structure;
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- incorporating the textile structure into a body of wet uncured concrete such that the concrete flows into the voids created in the textile structure, embedding the textile structure into the concrete, whereby the textile structure defines at least a portion of a surface of the cured concrete article.
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