Construction
Better, cheaper screening of FRP building materials
FRP manufacturers who want to qualify FRP panels for use as exterior wall assemblies on buildings of any height must also meet the acceptance criteria of a battery of fire- and smoke-related performance tests.
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Architectural composites: Rising to new challenges
In North America, Europe, the Middle East and Down Under, architects and engineers are finding composites are a good fit in groundbreaking applications.
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Pultruded window: Glass/polyurethane prototype wins award
Deceuninck Group NV (Hooglede-Gits, Belgium), is at the forefront of composite window frame design and innovation, as evidenced by its recent award for a large, prototype window designed to open like a door.
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The IBC and FRP
HPC editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan marks signs of progress toward the use of composites in high-rise architecture since the International Building Code was amended in 2009 to clearly define code-compliant uses of FRP.
Read MoreMIT researchers reveal how bonded joints fracture and fail
Moisture reportedly plays crucial role.
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Faster...is better
Ten months….that’s a lot of time, in my book. Why do public works agencies tolerate such drawn-out projects using traditional materials, when composites are faster, more efficient and more durable?
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Composites business does grow on trees
This advanced composites contractor welcomes down-to-earth opportunities to bring aerospace quality to fantasy foliage.
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Disaster-resistant housing: Framing the future
This need in developing nations could be met by a composite structural framing system capable of producing both fortified dwellings and jobs.
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Event pavilion: SMC panels ensure architectural authenticity
To expand its services, the High Bullen golf and spa hotel in Devonshire, U.K., converts a little-used tennis facility into a flexible meetings facility, and kept the remodeled structure within the local "heritage" code with simulated mortared stone-like composite panels from Acell Industries Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland).
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Composites steady radio telescope reflector
Precise carbon fiber-reinforced dish prototype could be the model for as many as 2,500 telescopes in the Square Kilometre Array.
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