Composite Building Materials: Thermal and Mechanical Performances of Samples Realized with Hay and Natural Resins

Maria La Gennusa, Pere Llorach-Massana, Juan Ignacio Montero, Francisco Javier Peña, Joan Rieradevall, Patrizia Ferrante, Gianluca Scaccianoce and Giancarlo Sorrentino
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Maria La Gennusa: Dipartimento di Energia, Ingegneria dell’Informazione e modelli Matematici (DEIM), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Pere Llorach-Massana: Sostenipra Research Group (SGR 01412), Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA
Juan Ignacio Montero: Institute of Food and Agricultural Research (IRTA), Carretera de Cabrils, km 2, 08348 Barcelona, Spain
Francisco Javier Peña: ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, La Rambla 30-32, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
Joan Rieradevall: Sostenipra Research Group (SGR 01412), Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA
Patrizia Ferrante: Dipartimento di Energia, Ingegneria dell’Informazione e modelli Matematici (DEIM), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Gianluca Scaccianoce: Dipartimento di Energia, Ingegneria dell’Informazione e modelli Matematici (DEIM), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Giancarlo Sorrentino: Dipartimento di Energia, Ingegneria dell’Informazione e modelli Matematici (DEIM), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 3, 1-15

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.

Keywords: energy building; natural materials; biocomposite; thermal and mechanical properties (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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