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Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic or (CFRP Or CRP) |
Lumicor Panels |
Light Emitting Polymers |
Used for Modular Structural Sceleton of the Building Weaving, braiding, knitting or winding the different carbon fibres can create a range of different forms including cylinders, ropes, bricks, or even more complex forms such as cones. The fibres are made rigid by coating or immersing them in an epoxy, polyester or polyurethane resin, a glue-like substance, which hardens and maintains them in their intended form. The different resins offer varying properties such as flexibility, toughness or rigidity, but all function as binders, allowing the carbon filaments to act as the stiffening and high tensile strength elements. |
Used For Outer Shell of The Building and Interior Partitions, as well as flooring in majour passages (to help guiding visually impared travellers through the building using different textured panels to identify various programmatic elements) Lumicor panels are made from thermally- laminated translucent resin, with options for integrating textile materials or graphics between polymer layers. Lumicor panels are superior to glass in terms of their stronger break resistance, lighter weight, and lower cost. They can be thermoformed, crowned, beveled, polished,water jet cut, bent, etc. The typical panel size is 4’ x 8’, but custom sizes can be made up to 5’ x 10’. Panel thickness ranges between .030” and 1”. |
Used For Signage And Various Video Projections Twenty years in development, conductive and semiconductive polymers are coming out of the lab. Polymer emissive displays promise full color and high contrast at a very low price.First application: Organic LED cell phone displays fast enough to support full-motion video. Material ConneXion : the global resource of new
and innovative materials for architects, artists,
and designers / George M. Beylerian and Andrew
Dent ; edited by Anita Moryadas.Hoboken,
N.J. : J. Wiley, 2005. (page 24) |