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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2002
Hari P. Reddy, Midland, MI (US);
Aleksander J. Pyzik, Midland, MI (US);
Ted A. Morgan, Midland, MI (US);
Sharon M. Allen, Midland, MI (US);
Jill R. Marra, Old Bridge, NJ (US);
Nicholas M. Shinkel, Bay City, MI (US);
Hari P. Reddy, Midland, MI (US);
Aleksander J. Pyzik, Midland, MI (US);
Ted A. Morgan, Midland, MI (US);
Sharon M. Allen, Midland, MI (US);
Jill R. Marra, Old Bridge, NJ (US);
Nicholas M. Shinkel, Bay City, MI (US);
Dow Global Technologies, Inc., Midland, MI (US);
Abstract
A monofilament plastic fiber useful in reducing plastic shrinkage cracking of concrete articles has been discovered. The fiber has a core that is a polyolefin that is at least partially enveloped by a sheath that is a copolymer of an olefin and at least one olefinically unsaturated comonomer selected from the group consisting of an unsaturated carboxylic acid, alkyl acrylate, alkyl methacrylate and vinyl ester.