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LOW BUOYANCY CELLULAR CONCRETE
Implementations described and claimed herein provide a process for creating a low-buoyancy cellular concrete that may include cement, water, and various surfactants including hydrophilic additives to produce the low-buoyancy cellular concrete. The low-buoyancy cellular concrete wet mix maintains its cellular properties while it is placed and cures. After curing, water may be absorbed into the low buoyancy cellular concrete via a combination of physical and chemical characteristics. An open cell structure of capillaries facilitates wicking action of water into the low buoyancy cellular concrete via capillary channeling (through the cementitious matrix between the micro-bubbles, and in some cases into the micro-bubbles as well). Further, the hydrophilic additive in the foam surfactant facilitates absorption of water into the low buoyancy cellular concrete through diminished surface tension at an interface of the cellular concrete and a body of water and at and between the microbubbles.
LOW BUOYANCY CELLULAR CONCRETE
Implementations described and claimed herein provide a process for creating a low-buoyancy cellular concrete that may include cement, water, and various surfactants including hydrophilic additives to produce the low-buoyancy cellular concrete. The low-buoyancy cellular concrete wet mix maintains its cellular properties while it is placed and cures. After curing, water may be absorbed into the low buoyancy cellular concrete via a combination of physical and chemical characteristics. An open cell structure of capillaries facilitates wicking action of water into the low buoyancy cellular concrete via capillary channeling (through the cementitious matrix between the micro-bubbles, and in some cases into the micro-bubbles as well). Further, the hydrophilic additive in the foam surfactant facilitates absorption of water into the low buoyancy cellular concrete through diminished surface tension at an interface of the cellular concrete and a body of water and at and between the microbubbles.
LOW BUOYANCY CELLULAR CONCRETE
MASLOFF BRIAN (author) / FEILER JOSEPH (author) / GOMEZ MILTON (author)
2022-02-17
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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