Classification, Uses | Construction Materials
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Geomembranes are impermeable membranes used widely as cut-offs and liners. These are used mostly as canal and pond liners; however, one of the largest current applications is to the containment of hazardous or municipal wastes and their leachates.
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Textile fibres are microscopic hair like substances with comparatively high ratio of length to width that helps in spinning them into yarns or bonding them together for creating fabrics directly.
Types, Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (FRP) Composites, Applications of FRP | Construction Materials
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A composite is any material made from more than one constituent material with significantly differing properties.
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A refractory material is one that retains its strength at high temperatures. Refractory materials are used in linings for furnaces, kilns, incinerators and reactors.
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Ceramics are a material often used in construction, made from a mixture of minerals, typically silica sand, with a clay binder and some impurities, and up to 30% water.
Properties, Types, Disadvantage | Construction Materials
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Glass Building Material is a mixture of raw materials like silica, sodium potassium carbonate, lime or lead oxide, manganese oxide which are grounded, sieved, and mixed in specific proportion to make glass.
Properties, Aluminium Alloys, Market Forms, Uses | Construction Materials
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Aluminium is a silvery-white metal, which is widely used in building because of its inherent properties of lightness and corrosion resistance.
Properties, Types, Defects, Mechanical Treatment, Uses | Construction Materials
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Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon containing less than 2% carbon and 1% manganese and small amounts of silicon, phosphorus, sulphur and oxygen.
Types, Advantage, Disadvantage | Construction Materials
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A false ceiling is a fitted ceiling that is suspended below the original ceiling of a room or home. It is provided below the roof slab on hanging supports
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The primary process in the manufacture of wood based products is veneering which produces thin sheets of wood known as veneers.
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Plywood is an engineered wood sheet material made up of fine layers or flimsy strands of wood veneers attached together by placing wood grains 90 degrees to one another.
Structure, Properties, Characteristics, Seasoning, Sawing, Defects, Common Markets Forms, Uses
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Timber as a building material falls in two major classes such as natural and man- made. With the help of science and latest technology, wood in its natural form as timber, lumber, etc.