World News Articles - Flexcrete: the revolutionary material


by FRANCIS ADAM - Date: 2009-10-05 - Word Count: 425 Share This!

When it comes to construction of residential and commercial places, the new material called flexcrete has revolutionized the very concept. The advantages it offers over the orthodox methods are: ? The ease that it offers in creating the dwellings. The advantage of this fact is that the way flexcrete is introduced in the market is in blocks? shapes and thus it is very easy to put them over the surfaces and thus the construction tends to become really easy. This brings an additional help into account where even less skilled labor can be employed. This material allows the user to use it like any wooden material, and thus could be drilled or sawed or whatever operation you want to perform over it is feasible. In fact, you can use the nuts and the screws in it, such a versatile substance it is. There is one thing quite amazing about this substance, and that is its weight. It is about five to six times lighter than concrete, the reason being the tiny pores of air captured within it which makes it light.

? And with this light weight comes strength too. This material is able to support two storey buildings and even more. There are now fibers available which make the strength and the capacity of the material even more. This strength is required in the buildings which are constructed in more of the disaster prone zones. Japan has now started building houses with this material because of the regular earthquakes faced by it. ? It is a fact that the pests feed upon organic materials. The more the percentage of carbon and hydrogen present in it, the more the pests will get attracted to it. Flexcrete is really resistant to the pests and makes the home pests free. In fact, moulds and fungi do not affect it any way. There were some tests conducted in a laboratory in which a wall made up of the same material of the area of hundred square feet was passed through intense fire and was kept there for hours. It was also pressurized by a heavy load of several thousand pounds. The temperature under which it was tested was somewhere around two thousand Kelvin. And over the other side of the same wall, the temperature of subjection was in two digits Fahrenheit?s. And after that, quenching of the wall was done where it was made to face water. Even after that there was no change in it.

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