Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Additively manufactured concrete-bearing radiation attenuation structure
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Application No.: US15188178Application Date: 2016-06-21
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Publication No.: US10074449B2Publication Date: 2018-09-11
- Inventor: Ryan D. White , Andrew Michael Wilds , Jerry L. Schlabach
- Applicant: Raytheon Company
- Applicant Address: US MA Waltham
- Assignee: Raytheon Company
- Current Assignee: Raytheon Company
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Waltham
- Agency: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
- Main IPC: G21F1/04
- IPC: G21F1/04 ; B33Y80/00 ; B33Y10/00 ; H05K9/00 ; B33Y50/02 ; B33Y70/00 ; B33Y30/00 ; B28B1/00 ; E04H9/00 ; G21F3/00 ; B29C64/124 ; E04B1/35 ; G21F7/00 ; E04B1/92 ; E04G21/00

Abstract:
A radiation-shielding attenuation structure and method of forming the attenuation structure, wherein the attenuation structure is made by additively manufacturing a concrete material that includes one or more attenuation dopants configured to enhance the radiation shielding of the concrete material. The one or more attenuation dopants may be configured in the concrete material to attenuate one or more types of radiation, such as electromagnetic radiation, gamma radiation, X-ray radiation, or neutron radiation. The attenuation structure formed by the concrete material may be additively manufactured on-site according to a model that has already been pre-certified for safe or secure use, thereby providing a repeatable and reproducible process that can reduce lead times and fabrication costs. The attenuation structure may be easily modified during the additive manufacturing process to have different concrete mixtures with different attenuation characteristics, which increases the tailorability and flexibility in design of the attenuation structure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170365365A1 Additively Manufactured Concrete-Bearing Radiation Attenuation Structure Public/Granted day:2017-12-21
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