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Dear Colleagues,

The CITE 2022 Congress is a great platform to present the latest research in the field of new technologies applied to building, architecture, and engineering.

CITE 2022 represents an ideal opportunity for researchers, professionals, teachers and students from all over the world to present their projects and research in these fields.

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Categories: Architecture and urban planning Construction and infrastructure engineering Innovation Quality, R&D and innovation

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building environment
building technology
domotic and smart cities
gender perspective in construction
general issues
innovation in building and civil works
installations
materials and construction systems
rehabilitation pathology and building maintenance

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Performance Characterisation of a New Plaster Composite Lightened with End-of-Life Tyres’ Recycled Materials for False Ceiling Plates

by Manuel Álvarez, Paulo Santos, Paulo Lopes, David Abrantes and Daniel Ferrández

Materials 2022, 15(16), 5660; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15165660 - 17 Aug 2022

Cited by 10 | Viewed by 1478

Abstract

Plaster is one of the most used and studied materials in the building process. This paper shows the result of the characterisation of a new plaster-based material enlightened and reinforced with polymers and end-of-life tyres’ recycled materials. As far as end-of-life tyres are a common waste item, this paper offers new recycling possibilities, as well as significant improvements in new building materials. Mechanical, thermal conductivity, sound absorption, fire reaction and environmental impact are studied and analysed. Three different end-of-life tyres’ recycled materials are used, two size rubber and textile fibres. A significant density reduction up to 17% was achieved mainly due to end-of-life materials lower density. Two thermal conductivity measurement methods, heat flux meter and guarded hot plate, were conducted and then compared. A 20% improvement with respect to the reference was achieved in those samples with textile fibre. The two methods’ measurements got a 1% difference in all samples analysed except textile fibre. Thus, this allowed to validate these methods and assure these measurements. Sound absorption was also measured. These materials reached α = 0.32 in high frequencies. Performance in low frequencies were lower. Fire tests led to no ignition results and no fire propagation. Finally, a basic global warming potential impact study based on environmental product declaration (EPD) is conducted. The most relevant result of this study is the potential 20–34% reduction of CO₂ emissions with the elaboration of these composites. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 7th International Conference on Technological Innovation in Building CITE 2022)

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