What composite materials are used in building structures?

Posted on April 14, 2010 by admin


I suppose even plain concrete is a composite of sorts, but steel reinforced concrete is clearly a composite and is used in huge quantifies in building structures.
There is some use of more "high tech" composites, like fiberglass reinforced plastic. And even for some seismic retrofit applications exotic stuff like Kevlar or graphite fiber reinforced plastic gets some limited use

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2 Responses to What composite materials are used in building structures?

  1. Richard B says:
    April 15, 2010 at 4:49 am

    concrete?
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  2. tinkertailorcandlestickmaker says:
    April 15, 2010 at 5:08 am

    I suppose even plain concrete is a composite of sorts, but steel reinforced concrete is clearly a composite and is used in huge quantifies in building structures.
    There is some use of more "high tech" composites, like fiberglass reinforced plastic. And even for some seismic retrofit applications exotic stuff like Kevlar or graphite fiber reinforced plastic gets some limited use
    References :