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Lightweight Sandwich Construction. 2nd Edition

  • Book

  • 496 Pages
  • December 2019
  • John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • ID: 2177109
Sandwich panels are now regularly used to clad buildings such as retail sheds, cold stores warehouses and factories. This book provides the designer, specifier and manufacturer of sandwich panels with a wealth of information on a wide range of topics, including durability, thermal, acoustic and fire performance, and structural and architectural considerations.

The second edition is substantially revised to take account of the new European Standard for sandwich panels as well as important recent research on fire, durability and thermal efficiency.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Materials; Thermal insulation, air and watertightness; Durability of sandwich panels; Acoustics; Behaviour in Fire; Cold stores; Special Architectural Applications; Principles of structural behaviour; Resistance to design loads; Design procedures; Mechanical testing and quality control; Additional structural considerations; The European Standard EN 14509; Numerical design examples

Authors

J. M. Davies