US-India Cooperative Research: Investigation of Lightweight Materials and Constructability Techniques for Cost-Effective Housing in India and USA

美印合作研究：印度和美国经济高效住房的轻质材料和施工技术研究

• 批准号: 0323729
• 负责人: Anil Sawhney
• 金额: $ 3.79万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0323729&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; India; Cooperative; Research; Investigation

Description: This award supports the US-India cooperative research project entitled Investigation of Lightweight Materials and Construction Techniques for Cost-effective Housing in India and the U.S. Professors Anil Sawhney, Arizona State University (ASU), Kenneth Walsh, San Diago State University (SDSU), and Krishnamurthy Ramamurthy, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) will use the "whole house approach" to investigate lightweight materials and construction processes to build quality cost-effective homes. They will examine the potential for autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) and other similar materials to become a major component in housing production in the U.S. and India. While wood has been a popular home building material in the U.S., brick and concrete are widely used in India. The investigators believe that the energy and thermal mass properties, durability, and cost effectiveness of AAC have advantages over both other systems. Scope: The collaboration between ASU, SDSU, and the IITM is expected to be mutually beneficial through the intellectual exchange of ideas, results, and approaches to housing research. The manufacture, construction, and implications for residential production system design, which have been extensively studied in the US, will be integrated with the Indian researchers' extensive experience in materials characterization of AAC. The collaboration is expected to expand understanding of AAC use in residential production in both settings. It will create technical linkages among the institutions, researchers and students, and will contribute to the development of improved graduate and undergraduate courses. The Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems is co funding this research; and India's Department of Science & Technology (DST) supports this project under the NSF/DST joint program.

产品描述：该奖项支持美国-印度合作研究项目，题为印度经济型住房的轻质材料和建筑技术调查，美国亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）教授Anil Sawhney，圣地亚哥州立大学（SDSU）教授Kenneth沃尔什和Krishnamurthy Ramamurthy，印度马德拉斯理工学院（IITM）将使用“全屋方法”来研究轻质材料和建筑工艺，以建造高质量、高性价比的房屋。 他们将研究蒸压加气混凝土（AAC）和其他类似材料成为美国和印度住房生产主要组成部分的潜力。 虽然木材在美国一直是一种受欢迎的家居建材，砖和混凝土在印度被广泛使用。 研究人员认为，AAC的能量和热质量特性、耐久性和成本效益优于其他两种系统。 适用范围：ASU，SDSU和IITM之间的合作预计将通过思想，成果和住房研究方法的知识交流而实现互利互惠。 制造，施工和住宅生产系统设计的影响，这已经在美国进行了广泛的研究，将与印度研究人员在AAC材料表征方面的丰富经验相结合。 预计此次合作将扩大对AAC在这两种环境中的住宅生产中使用的理解。 它将在各机构、研究人员和学生之间建立技术联系，并将有助于改进研究生和本科生课程。 土木和机械系统部门共同资助这项研究;印度科学技术部（DST）在NSF/DST联合计划下支持该项目。