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2. Transite - Wikipedia

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   Transite originated as a brand that Johns Manville, an American company, created in 1929 for a line of asbestos-cement products, including boards and pipes. [1] In time it became a generic term for other companies' similar asbestos-cement products, and later an even more generic term for a hard, fireproof composite material , fibre cement ...

3. Lustron house - Wikipedia

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   The roof likewise consisted of porcelain-enameled steel tiles, which were installed shingle-style. The front and rear doors featured a single light of translucent, rippled glass. As seen in the chart above, floors in the Westchester Deluxe models were asphalt tile, but in other models (Westchester Standard, Newport, and Meadowbrook), floors ...

4. Corrugated galvanised iron - Wikipedia

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   Corrugated galvanised iron (CGI) or steel, colloquially corrugated iron (near universal), wriggly tin (taken from UK military slang), pailing (in Caribbean English), corrugated sheet metal (in North America), zinc (in Cyprus and Nigeria) or custom orb / corro sheet (Australia), is a building material composed of sheets of hot-dip galvanised ...

5. Metal roof - Wikipedia

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   A metal roof is a roofing system featuring metal pieces or tiles exhibiting corrosion resistance, impermeability to water, and long life. It is a component of the building envelope . The metal pieces may be a covering on a structural, non-waterproof roof, or they could be self-supporting sheets.

6. Structural insulated panel - Wikipedia

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   A structural insulated panel, or structural insulating panel, (SIP), is a form of sandwich panel used as a building material in the construction industry. SIP is a sandwich structured composite , consisting of an insulating layer of rigid core sandwiched between two layers of structural board.

7. Sandwich panel - Wikipedia

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   The density of sandwich panels range from 10 kg/m 2 up to 35 kg/m 2, depending on the foam and metal thickness, decreasing time and effort in: transportation, handling and installation. All these geometric and material properties influence the global/local failure behavior of the sandwich panels under different loading conditions such as ...