Petoca, Ltd.

Takenaka Corporation

Yoshikazu Nagata

Toshio Yonezawa

Katsumi Takano

Sadatoshi Ohno

Masaki Iwata

Junichi Ida

Yoshiyuki Nishimura

Hideyuki Nakajima

Yasushi Katsuta

Tadahiro Kakizawa

There are here disclosed carbon fibers for reinforcement of cement which are obtained by applying, onto the surfaces of carbon fibers, esters of oleic acid and aliphatic monovalent alcohols, esters of oleyl alcohol and monovalent fatty acids, polyoxyalkylene bisphenol ethers or polyether esters as sizing agents, and a cement composite material having a bending strength of 300 kgf/cm.sup.2 or more which contains cut carbon fibers having a fiber length of 10 to 50 mm at a mixing volume ratio of the cut carbon fibers to the cement matrix in the range of 1 to 5%. According to the present invention, there are provided the carbon fibers for reinforcement of cement which have excellent adhesive properties to the cement, good process passage properties through a direct spray gun and good bundling properties and which are suitable for a direct spray method, and the cement composite material using the carbon fibers and having high bending strength.

Carbon fibers for reinforcement of cement and cement composite material

Carbon fiber rovings for reinforcement of concrete are here disclosed which are obtained by sizing, with a sizing agent, strands each consisting of 100 to 1,000 monofilaments of mesophase pitch-based carbon fibers, and then bundling the thus sized 5 to 100 strands into one roving.

Carbon fiber rovings for reinforcement of concrete

The mesophase pitch based and melt blown discontinuous carbon fibers of a peculiar structure are provided. These fibers are characterized in that a large number of small domains, each domain has an average equivalent diameter of from 0.03 .mu.m to 1 .mu.m and has a nearly unidirectional orientation of folded carbon layers, assemble to form a mosaic structure on the cross-section of the said carbon fibers and that the folded carbon layers of each domain are oriented at an angle to the direction of the folded carbon layers of the neighboring domains on the boundary.

Carbon fibers and non-woven fabrics

Flexible materials for reflecting electromagnetic waves can be provided by using adhesive type non-woven fabrics formed by self adhesion of the principal component of pitch based carbon fibers.

Flexible materials for reflecting electromagnetic wave

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Ibaraki-ken, Japan

Yoshikazu Nagata