PATH: Innovative Multifunctional Structural Panels for Cost-effective Panelized Construction

创新的多功能结构板的成本效益的镶板建设0533306摘要：这是至关重要的美国经济，成本效益的结构系统和材料的探索，以延长使用寿命，并提高性能的住房和基础设施。该项目将开创一种新技术，用于开发预制和预制的多功能建筑构件。（或子元件），其具有改进的结构性能、直观的安装，不需要熟练的劳动力，并且可以被证明降低壳体的成本;并且将联合收割机的结构性能与热性能相结合，防火和隔音质量。该项目特别关注多功能镶板建筑，通过增加工厂的成本，基于子部件组件的预制，其中可以将更大的结构性能设计到部件中。拟议研究的实质是，有史以来第一次采用一种新的具有成本效益的预成型工艺和热塑性技术，开发创新的混合FRP-轻质混凝土墙板和玻璃纤维增强智能热塑性板材，用于低成本住房结构。该研究还旨在扩大其影响，包括在研究团队的本科生，并采取研究成果的各个模块的适当的课程。该研究的其他影响包括将先进技术从材料科学和工程转移到土木工程竞技场，鼓励跨学科研究的精神，在更成熟的土木工程领域开发有效的解决方案，并使复合材料行业参与建筑市场。

Innovative Multifunctional Structural Panels for Cost-effective Panelized Construction0533306Abstract: It is vital to the U.S. economy that cost-effective structural systems and materials be explored to extend service life and to improve performance of housing and infrastructure facilities. The project will pioneer a new technology for the development of pre-engineered and prefabricated multifunctional building components (or sub elements) that possess improved structural performance, intuitive installation that does not require skilled labor and that can be demonstrated to lower the cost of housing; and combine structural performance with thermal, fire-protection and sound insulating qualities.This project particularly focuses on multifunctional panelized construction where greater affordability can be achieved through increased factory-based prefabrication of subcomponent assemblies where greater structural performance can be designed into the component. The essence of the proposed research is, for the first time ever, to adapt a new cost-effective preforming process and thermoplastic technology to develop innovative hybrid FRP-lightweight concrete wall panels and glass fiber reinforced intelligent thermoplastic sheet panels for low cost housing structures. The research also aims at broadening its impact by including undergraduates in the research team and taking research findings to various modules of the appropriate coursework. Other impacts of the research includes transfer of advanced technology from the material science and engineering to the civil engineering arena, encouraging the spirit of interdisciplinary research in developing effective solutions in the more established civil engineering field, and engaging the composites industry in the construction market.