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RE: Lava-Cement to replace Ferro-Cement? - OpenD - 03-01-2011
quote:
Originally posted by Rob Tucker
I am familiar with fiber additives.
No, this isn't a fiber additive. It is a continuous fiber winding, more like fiber wound epoxy-composite high-pressure tanks than anything.
Rebar's great for many things, but you can't throw a roll of it in the backseat like you can with this stuff.
And yeah, the weight test wasn't scientific, but it was still darned impressive, a huge overload past what other types of structures in that scale would support.
RE: Lava-Cement to replace Ferro-Cement? - sciguy - 03-04-2011
Rob obviously hasn't watched the video.
The concept looks promising.
Hugh