Plastics in Building Structures. Proceedings of a Conference Held in London, 14–16 June 1965

Content: 
PLASTICS IN BUILDING STRUCTURES, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Foreword, Page vii
Building in plastics—plastics in building: what is needed, Pages 1-5
The properties of plastics in relation to building structures, Pages 7-12
Cost and cost techniques, Pages 13-20
Dimensional co-ordination, Pages 21-26
Fire regulations and plastics, Pages 27-31
Plastics in buildings and fire insurance, Pages 33-35
Results of fire tests on plastics pipes and sheets for covering walls and ceilings, Pages 37-41
Assessment of the flammability of plastics materials, Pages 43-49
Developments in service core units and prefabricated bathrooms, Pages 51-55
Service core units and prefabricated bathrooms in industrialized building, Pages 57-66
The use of epoxy adhesives for bonding concrete: Part I, Pages 67-72
The use of epoxy adhesives for bonding concrete: Part II, Pages 73-75
The fire-resistance of resin-jointed concrete, Pages 77-81
Polymer cements, Pages 83-88
Cored chipboard units, Pages 89-93
Plastics in glued timber structural joints, Pages 95-107
Weathering of plastics, Pages 109-111
Measurement of photochemical degradation in rigid poly(vinyl chloride), Pages 113-118
Acrylics under load, Pages 119-128
Acceptable standards of sound insulation in houses, flats and offices, Pages 129-132
The general problems of sound isolation, Pages 133-136
Design of lightweight partitions with high sound insulation, Pages 137-142
Design construction and experience with post-tensioned polyester roof in the Swiss National Exhibition, Pages 143-147
The analysis of folded-plate structures in plastics, Pages 149-163
Recent developments in plastics stressed-skin pyramidal roof systems, Pages 165-173
Prefabricated shell structure of glass-reinforced plastics for a greenhouse, Pages 175-188
The development of a long-span load-bearing reinforced-plastics roofing and walling unit, Pages 189-200
Optimum design of sandwich struts and beams, Pages 201-208
Plastics sandwich panels with various foamed core materials, and their behaviour under load, Pages 209-220
Structural behaviour of sandwich panels with foamed-plastics cores, Pages 221-232
Structural potentials of paper-skin polyurethane foam board, Pages 233-241
Structural building panels with expanded polystyrene cores, Pages 243-255
The physical properties of rigid urethane foam sandwich panels, Pages 257-266
The design and structural applications of urethane-cored sandwich panels, Pages 267-276
Application of minimum structure to cellular plastics, Pages 277-288
The capillary structure—a new system for producing sandwich panels, Pages 289-292
Commercial development of panelized cold-storage units, Pages 293-298
Building structures with plastics, Pages 299-308
Evaluation of the long-term strength of structural synthetic materials (Abridged), Page 309
Veiws in retrospect, Page 311
Authors' biographical notes, Pages 313-320