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2. Cement board - Wikipedia

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   Cement board. Cement board is composed of aggregated Portland cement with a glass-fiber mesh on the surfaces. This 5⁄16 inch (7.9 mm) thick cement board is designed as an underlayment for tile floors. These are 3-by-5-foot (91 by 152 cm) sheets. A cement board is a combination of cement and reinforcing fibers formed into sheets, of varying ...

3. Fibre-reinforced plastic - Wikipedia

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   Composite material made of a polymer matrix reinforced with fibres. Fibre-reinforced plastic(FRP; also called fibre-reinforced polymer, or in American English fiber) is a composite materialmade of a polymermatrix reinforced with fibres. The fibres are usually glass(in fibreglass), carbon(in carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer), aramid, or basalt.

4. Rigid panel - Wikipedia

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   Rigid panel. A multi-family residential building under construction with rigid panel exterior insulating sheathing. Rigid panel insulation, also referred to as continuous insulation, [1] can be made from foam plastics such as polyurethane (PUR), polyisocyanurate (PIR), and polystyrene, or from fibrous materials such as fiberglass, rock and slag ...

5. Structural insulated panel - Wikipedia

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   Structural insulated panel. SIPs are most commonly made of OSB panels sandwiched around a foam core made of polystyrene. 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 ...

6. Plywood - Wikipedia

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   Plywood. Softwood plywood made from spruce. The principle of making plywood. Plywood is a composite material manufactured from thin layers, or "plies", of wood veneer that have been stacked and glued together. It is an engineered wood from the family of manufactured boards, which include plywood, medium-density fibreboard (MDF), oriented strand ...

7. Fiber-reinforced concrete - Wikipedia

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   Fiber-reinforced concrete or fibre-reinforced concrete (FRC) is concrete containing fibrous material which increases its structural integrity. It contains short discrete fibers that are uniformly distributed and randomly oriented. Fibers include steel fibers, glass fibers, synthetic fibers and natural fibers [1] – each of which lend varying ...