The Role of Advance Composite material In Contemporary Buildings

Composite materials have been used from the earliest times, from
wood, which is a naturally occurring composite of lignin and cellulose,
through straw reinforced clay bricks to reinforced concrete. In the 20th
century, a new breed of composite materials was developed using
polymer matrices with high performance reinforcement fibres. The
great effect and uncompromising properties of advance composite
materials has enabled the emergence of composites cut across all
fields of application and all areas or work, just to mention a few
aeronautic engineering, automobile engineering, and medicine,
military and building construction. Therefore, with emphasis on building
construction, advance composite material has played a vital role in
today’s contemporary building construction method, by presenting its
self as an alternative building construction material, its application has
made the contemporary building construction much more flexible and
achievable, compare to traditional building materials and its methods
of construction. It further offers the building construction industry the
technical know-how of having new possibilities of design styles, shapes
and forms. Therefore, advance composite material proves it’s self to be
a better and a new alternative building construction material that
remains construction friendly and flexible based on its properties. This
study therefore tends to provide an overview on advance composite
material, its application as well as its role in today’s contemporary
building.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2018), 2(3), 95-101.
https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4723