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Evaluation of system resilience of building panels through full-scale wind load and flood tests

• 2013
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Authors N . Uddin , Li Dong , M . A . Mousa , F . J . Masters and G . Fernandez
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Publisher Taylor & Francis
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Pages 1325–1329
publication.type International
Paper Link Open Link
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Abstract
Natural disasters, such as windstorms and floods, caused significant loss across the United States in the last decade, paralyzing a great number of buildings systems especially traditional wood houses. As a potential substitute for conventional wood panels, Composite Structural Insulated Panels (CSIPs) are made of low-cost thermoplastic orthotropic glass/polypropylene laminates as the facesheet and expanded polystyrene foam as the core. The CSIPs consists of merits such as high strength-weight ratio, fast construction with modular manufacturer and easy repair, and relatively low life time cost. This study evaluates the resilience of building envelop systems with CSIPs under multi-hazards by performing the full-scale windstorm and flood tests. The results demonstrates the CSIPs to have excellent potential for disaster resilient envelope design.