Composite building materials : thermal and mechanical performances of samples realized with hay and natural resins
La Gennusa, Maria (Università degli Studi di Palermo. Dipartimento di Energia, Ingegneria dell'Informazione e modelli Matematici)
Montero Camacho, Juan Ignacio (Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries)
Peña, Francisco Javier (Escola Universitària de Disseny i Enginyeria de Barcelona)
Rieradevall, Joan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Ferrante, Patrizia (Università degli Studi di Palermo. Dipartimento di Energia, Ingegneria dell'Informazione e modelli Matematici)
Scaccianoce, Gianluca (Università degli Studi di Palermo. Dipartimento di Energia, Ingegneria dell'Informazione e modelli Matematici)
Sorrentino, Giancarlo (Università degli Studi di Palermo. Dipartimento di Energia, Ingegneria dell'Informazione e modelli Matematici)
Llorach-Massana, Pere (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)

Date:	2017
Abstract:	Recent years have seen an increasing public interest in issues related to energy saving and environmental pollution reduction in the building sector. As a result, many directives have been issued, the most important being the Directive 2010/31/EU (EPBD Recast) on the energy performance of buildings, which requires that "Member States shall ensure that by 31 December 2020 all new buildings are nearly zero-energy buildings". This goal can be obtained not only by reducing energy demand for heating and cooling, but also, for example, by improving building envelope performances. In this work, a first analysis of the thermal and structural behaviour of a biocomposite material, constituted by a natural resin (rosin) and vegetal fibres (hay), has been performed, with particular attention to the share of fibres and the granulometry in the mixture. The biocomposite has shown both good insulation properties and mechanical resistance. However, the results show that further analyses should be performed on the optimisation of the samples' preparation process.
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Energy building ; Natural materials ; Biocomposite ; Thermal and mechanical properties
Published in:	Sustainability, Vol. 9, issue 3 (March 2017) , p. 373, ISSN 2071-1050

DOI: 10.3390/su9030373

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