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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2008
Filed:
May. 06, 2005
Jeffery Todd Cook, Germantown, TN (US);
Howard Leon Schoggen, Southaven, MS (US);
Robert Irvin Bell, Collierville, TN (US);
David Jay Smith, Germantown, TN (US);
Gerald Hunt Morton, Germantown, TN (US);
Jeffery Todd Cook, Germantown, TN (US);
Howard Leon Schoggen, Southaven, MS (US);
Robert Irvin Bell, Collierville, TN (US);
David Jay Smith, Germantown, TN (US);
Gerald Hunt Morton, Germantown, TN (US);
BKI Holding Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a fiber-reinforced cement based or cementitious material, and process for making, where the reinforcing fiber is a chemically treated cellulose or non-cellulose fiber. The fiber reinforced cementitious material includes (i) cement, (ii) optionally, sand, aggregate, or sand and aggregate, and (iii) chemically treated fibers having a polyvalent cation content of from about 0.1 weight percent to about 5.0 weight percent based on the dry weight of the treated fibers. The present invention further provides for a fiber reinforced cementitious material having a weak acid content of from about 0.5 weight percent to about 10 weight percent based on the dry weight of the treated fibers.