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2. List of commercially available roofing materials - Wikipedia

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   Roofing material is the outermost layer on the roof of a building, sometimes self-supporting, but generally supported by an underlying structure. A building's roofing material provides shelter from the natural elements. The outer layer of a roof shows great variation dependent upon availability of material, and the nature of the supporting ...

3. Dymalloy - Wikipedia

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   Dymalloy is a metal matrix composite of 20% copper and 80% silver alloy matrix with type I diamond. [1] It has a very high thermal conductivity of 420 W/(m·K), and its thermal expansion can be adjusted to match other materials, e.g., silicon and gallium arsenide chips.

4. Composite material - Wikipedia

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   Composite materials are also becoming more common in the realm of orthopedic surgery, [42] and it is the most common hockey stick material. Carbon composite is a key material in today's launch vehicles and heat shields for the re-entry phase of spacecraft. It is widely used in solar panel substrates, antenna reflectors and yokes of spacecraft.

5. Composite construction - Wikipedia

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   Composite construction is a generic term to describe any building construction involving multiple dissimilar materials. Composite construction is often used in building aircraft , watercraft , and building construction .

6. Roof tiles - Wikipedia

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   Dating to the 1840s, interlocking tiles are the newest category of roofing tile and one of the widest ranging in appearance. [4] Their distinguishing feature is the presence of a ridge for interlocking with one another. This allows them to provide a high ratio of roof area to number of tiles used.

7. Asphalt roll roofing - Wikipedia

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   Asphalt roll roofing or membrane is a roofing material commonly used for buildings that feature a low sloped roof pitch in North America. The material is based on the same materials used in asphalt shingles ; an organic felt or fiberglass mat, saturated with asphalt , and faced with granular stone aggregate.