Plastics in Building Structures

Proceedings of a Conference Held in London, 14-16 June 1965

D. S. Mahon, J. C. Barford, W. Dawson

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781483198156
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483223186
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Engineering General
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Plastics in Building Structures covers the proceedings of a conference, held in London on June 14-16, 1965. This conference focuses on the applications of plastics materials in structures. This book emerged from 39 papers presented at the conference. The introductory papers describe the properties of plastics in relation to building structures, and the economic aspects, fire regulations, and flammability of these materials. Considerable papers are devoted to various areas of application of plastics, including adhesives, polymer cements, cored chipboard units, and glued timber. These topics are followed by discussions on the characterization, design, and structural and physical properties of plastics. The final chapters review the commercial development and applications of plastic materials. This book will prove useful to engineers, designer, manufacturers, and researchers in the allied fields.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Plastics in Building Structures
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Paper 1. Building in plastics—plastics in building: what is needed
• Paper 2. The properties of plastics in relation to building structures
• Discussion on Papers 1 and 2
• Paper 3. Cost and cost techniques
• Paper 4. Dimensional co-ordination
• Paper 5. Fire regulations and plastics
• Paper 6. Plastics in buildings and fire insurance
• Paper 7. Results of fire tests on plastics pipes and sheets for covering walls and ceilings
• Paper 8. Assessment of the flammability of plastics materials
• Paper 9. Developments in service core units and prefabricated bathrooms
• Paper 10. Service core units and prefabricated bathrooms in industrialized building
• Paper 11a. The use of epoxy adhesives for bonding concrete: Part I
• Paper 11b. The use of epoxy adhesives for bonding concrete: Part II
• Paper 12. The fire-resistance of resin-jointed concrete
• Paper 13. Polymer cements
• Paper 14. Cored chipboard units
• Paper 15. Plastics in glued timber structural joints
• Discussion on Papers 11,12,13,14 and 15
• Paper 16. Weathering of plastics
• Paper 17. Measurement of photochemical degradation in rigid poly(vinyl chloride)
• Paper 18. Acrylics under load
• Discussion on Papers 16,17 and 18
• Paper 19. Acceptable standards of sound insulation in houses, flats and offices
• Paper 20. The general problems of sound isolation
• Paper 22. Design of lightweight partitions with high sound insulation
• Discussion on Papers 19, 20 and 22
• Paper 23. Design construction and experience with post-tensioned polyester roof in the Swiss National Exhibition
• Paper 24. The analysis of folded-plate structures in plastics
• Paper 25. Recent developments in plastics stressed-skin pyramidal roof systems
• Paper 26. Prefabricated shell structure of glass-reinforced plastics for a greenhouse
• Paper 27. The development of a long-span load-bearing reinforced-plastics roofing and walling unit
• Discussion on papers 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27
• Paper 28. Optimum design of sandwich struts and beams
• Paper 29. Plastics sandwich panels with various foamed core materials, and their behaviour under load
• Paper 30. Structural behaviour of sandwich panels with foamed-plastics cores
• Discussion on papers 28, 29 and 30
• Paper 31. Structural potentials of paper-skin polyurethane foam board
• Paper 32. Structural building panels with expanded polystyrene cores
• Paper 33. The physical properties of rigid urethane foam sandwich panels
• Paper 34. The design and structural applications of urethane-cored sandwich panels
• Discussion on papers 31, 32, 33 and 34
• Paper 35. Application of minimum structure to cellular plastics
• Paper 36. The capillary structure—a new system for producing sandwich panels
• Paper 37. Commercial development of panelized cold-storage units
• Discussion on papers 35, 36 and 37
• Paper 38. Building structures with plastics
• Paper 39. Evaluation of the long-term strength of structural synthetic materials
• Veiws in retrospect
• Authors' biographical notes