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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. Roof tiles - Wikipedia

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   Roof tiles can be affixed by screws or nails, but in some cases historic designs utilize interlocking systems that are self-supporting. Tiles typically cover an underlayment system, which seals the roof against water intrusion.

4. Guastavino tile - Wikipedia

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   Guastavino vaulting is a technique for constructing robust, self-supporting arches and architectural vaults using interlocking terracotta tiles and layers of mortar to form a thin skin, with the tiles following the curve of the roof as opposed to horizontally (), or perpendicular to the curve (as in Roman vaulting).

5. Covering (construction) - Wikipedia

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   The roof support, attached to the frame, serves as a fixing support for the roof elements. It is usually a lathing or boarding. Lathing is a network of horizontal wooden slats, square or rectangular in section, called battens. [3] In the presence of a flexible underlayment, counter-battens are placed under the lathing.

6. Retractable roof - Wikipedia

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   A retractable roof is a roof system designed to roll back the roof of a structure so that the interior of the facility is open to the outdoors. [1] Retractable roofs are sometimes referred to as operable roofs or retractable skylights. The term operable skylight, while quite similar, refers to a skylight that opens on a hinge, rather than on a ...

7. Reciprocal frame - Wikipedia

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   The reciprocal frame, also known as a Mandala roof, [1] has been used since the twelfth century in Chinese and Japanese architecture although little or no trace of these ancient methods remain. More recently they were used by architects Kazuhiro Ishii (the Spinning House) and Yasufumi Kijima, and engineer Yoishi Kan (Kijima Stonemason Museum).

8. Sandwich panel - Wikipedia

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   The European sandwich panel standard is EN14509:2013 Self-supporting double-skin metal-faced insulating-panels - Factory-made products – Specifications. Sandwich panels quality can be certified by applying the quality level EPAQ

9. Twinwall plastic - Wikipedia

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   Twinwall Polycarbonate sheeting is primarily installed with glazing bars, which secure the sheets down to the frame, whether timber, metal or other framing material. The type of glazing bar used it critical for the strength of the roof and depends on the thickness of polycarbonate and structure design.