Architectural cladding

Long life and excellent weathering characteristics are required for the main application of coil coatings (architectural cladding). This means that new coil-coating systems have to be fully proved before they are widely adopted. 

Wada M. and Nimomiya M., "Glass-Ceramic Architectural Cladding Materials," Sci. TechnoL Compos. Mater., 30, 846-50 (1995). 

Sulphuric acid 175-250 20-25 10-24 10-15 A1 or Pb 25 Transparent and near-colourless General use architectural cladding window frames... 

Howard R.L., Zin I.M., Scantlebury J.D., Lyon S.B. (1999), Inhibition of cut edge corrosion of coil-coated architectural cladding . Prog. Org. Coat, 37,83-90. 

Copper is one of the oldest metals known to man and one of its alloys, bronze, has been worked for over 5000 years. Some applications of the various grades of pure copper are wire, for electrical windings and wiring sheet for architectural cladding, tanks and vessels and tubing for heat exchangers in chemical industries. There are very many useful applications of copper alloys in industries, but due to the price they have been replaced by cheaper material. 

Lead coatings are mainly applied by cladding and find principal use in the chemical industry for resistance to sulphuric acid, for cable sheathing resistant to attack by soils and in architectural applications where resistance to industrial atmospheres is particularly good. They rely for their protective action on the formation of insoluble corrosion products which stifle the corrosion reaction and lead to very long service lives, but the corrosion resistance is impaired when chlorides are present. 

Fig. 16.2 Nanoscale optofluidic sensor arrays (NOSA). (a) 3D illustration of a NOSA sensing element. It consists of a ID photonic crystal microcavity, which is evanescently coupled to a Si waveguide, (b) The electric field profile for the fundamental TE mode propagating through an air clad Si waveguide on SiOi. (c) SEM of a NOSA device array. It illustrates how this architecture is capable of two dimensional multiplexing, thus affording a large degree of parallelism, (d) Actual NOSA chip with an aligned PDMS fluidic layer on top. Reprinted from Ref. 37 with permission. 2008 Optical Society of America...

Schmid G (2007), Membrane cladded air traffic control tower, Vienna Job report , in Bogner-Balz H and Zanelli A, Ephemeral Architecture Time and Textiles, Milan, Libreria CLUP, 217-226... 

Austenitic stainless steels are by far the most common and contain 18% chromium and 8% nickel, hence the term 18/8 stainless steel. The austenitic structure, which is the soHd solution of iron carbide and all the metal additives in iron, is stabilized at all temperatures, producing a soft and flexible product. It is used for fume hoods, decorative cladding, and architectural features. 

British Steel Corporation (1987). Roofing and Cladding in Steel—A Guide to Architectural Practice and BSC Colorcoat Technical Specifications. BSC Strip Mill Products, Newport, Gwent, 32 pp. + 8 pp. 

Very elegant approach was demonstrated recently when zinc -tetra(4-pyridyl) porphyrin molecules were assembled together with fullerene derivatives into hydrid nanorods. These nanorods demonstrate coaxial cable architecture with the central fullerene-composed n-type wire surrounded by the p-type porphyrin cladding (Figure 33). ... 

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