[PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: "Ferrocement" for hull material?

[Michael B Holt <michaelbholt@juno.com>]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 10:38:17 -0500 "Allan Gaines" <Allan_Gaines@yahoo.com>
writes:
>>At the same time it was being discussed. on Yacht-L
>>we saw message from a New Zealander who'd just
>>finished his ferrocement hull.   He had the compressive
>>strenght tested, and it came out about a tenth of what
>>it was expected (and gaurenteed) to be.   That ended
>>it for me: he'd used professional plasterers and other
>>experts, and the result was totally unacceptable.
>
>    So I take it that this definitely wasn't a "design"
>problem- it just doesn't behave as advertised?

No one is sure why it happened, but it did.   

>From what he said, concrete can be guarenteed
to have some characteristics.   For the Kiwi, it
didn't happen.



Mike
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