PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15773313
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["073", "028030"]

Abstract:
Method of design and manufacturing concrete structures subjected to relevant cyclic loads along their service lives, as wind towers, and a fatigue testing machine. The method consists on the design of concrete structures conditioned by cyclic loads considering a fatigue strength value specified by the project as one of the main design parameters, which will be verified during the manufacturing phase as one of the control parameters of the quality assurance plan by performing fatigue strength test on concrete samples representative of the concrete structural elements produced on said manufacturing phase. The method allows to decouple the concrete fatigue strength from the compressive strength of the material, which is why includes a verification of the fatigue strength as a part of a quality assurance plan of production according to a new developed procedure.

Claim (Index 4):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein said phase b.2) includes the following steps:\n b.2.1) design of a sampling plan adapted to a production volume and rate of structural concrete elements, that allows to obtain concrete samples representative of populations, associated to production control lots, whose sizes make possible a suitable characterization of fatigue phenomenon of the concrete; b.2.2) design of a testing plan according to an expected stress history of said structural concrete elements and its critical frequencies, considering the performance of different test series over each sample of specimens in order to characterize the concrete fatigue behaviour for different stress levels; b.2.3) obtaining concrete samples following the sampling plan defined on step b.2.1) and the specimens required by the testing plan defined on step b.2.2); b.2.4) manufacturing concrete test specimens with the concrete samples obtained on step b.23) according to the testing plan defined on step b.2.2) b.2.5) execution of fatigue strength tests over concrete test specimens manufactured on step b.2.4) according to the specifications of the testing plan defined on step b.2.2); b.2.6) evaluation of test results obtained on step b.2.5) by the application of statistical procedures that consist on the adjustment of a suitable distribution function and then obtaining characterization parameters in order to determine the design values of the strength associated to an ultimate limit state of fatigue; b.2.7) verification of the acceptance of the concrete structural element manufactured on step b.1) by checking that the value of concrete fatigue strength obtained after the evaluation of the test results on step b.2.6) is equal or higher than the fatigue strength value specified by the project on step a.1).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91781
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10700236', '14652541', '13433465', '11833628', '13319083']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6752763333799674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5001003237283342
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6577587324148041
- Mean Citation Score: 189.127532
- Max Citation Score: 210.15976
- Similarity Product: 142.99723822240833

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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