08-09-2014, 10:57 AM
Innovative Materials and Products
An architect can be a designer, developer and manufacturer. Creative architects develop their own innovative materials and products for specific applications. They develop new applications and the associated materials and products, which they have to manufacture.
Depending on their characteristics, their structure and other properties, materials and substances can be divided as follows:
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
These are manufactured from crushed and cleaned waste . Unless the raw material is sorted in advance to separate out the valuable fractions, the resulting products are usually of lower quality than the originally used materials.
BIODEGRADABLE MATERIALS
Materials that are decomposed and completely broken down by microorganisms living in the soil.
BIOMATERIALS
Plastics and other materials made from renewable sources.
NONVARIABLE MATERIALS
These materials are largely unaffected by physical and chemical influences, such as changes in ambient temperatures. e.g. metal alloy Invar.
FUNCTIONAL SUBSTANCES
Mono functional and multi functional substances.
SMART MATERIALS
These materials, substances and products have changeable properties and are able to reversibly change their shape or colour in response to physical and/or chemical influences, e.g. light, temperature.
They can be differentiated into non-smart materials, semi-smart materials and smart materials.
HYBRID MATERIALS
These materials are manufactured by combining at least two different components, e.g. biological with synthetic components.
FUNCTIONALLY GRADIENT MATERIALS
Composite materials with gradually merging layers. This results in a continuous change in material properties.
NANOMATERIALS
Materials made from nanometresc
An architect can be a designer, developer and manufacturer. Creative architects develop their own innovative materials and products for specific applications. They develop new applications and the associated materials and products, which they have to manufacture.
Depending on their characteristics, their structure and other properties, materials and substances can be divided as follows:
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
These are manufactured from crushed and cleaned waste . Unless the raw material is sorted in advance to separate out the valuable fractions, the resulting products are usually of lower quality than the originally used materials.
BIODEGRADABLE MATERIALS
Materials that are decomposed and completely broken down by microorganisms living in the soil.
BIOMATERIALS
Plastics and other materials made from renewable sources.
NONVARIABLE MATERIALS
These materials are largely unaffected by physical and chemical influences, such as changes in ambient temperatures. e.g. metal alloy Invar.
FUNCTIONAL SUBSTANCES
Mono functional and multi functional substances.
SMART MATERIALS
These materials, substances and products have changeable properties and are able to reversibly change their shape or colour in response to physical and/or chemical influences, e.g. light, temperature.
They can be differentiated into non-smart materials, semi-smart materials and smart materials.
HYBRID MATERIALS
These materials are manufactured by combining at least two different components, e.g. biological with synthetic components.
FUNCTIONALLY GRADIENT MATERIALS
Composite materials with gradually merging layers. This results in a continuous change in material properties.
NANOMATERIALS
Materials made from nanometresc
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