Expanded polystyrene composite door shutters —an alternative to wooden door shutters

摘要

The paper describes in brief the work carried out for the development of expanded polystryrene (eps) composite door shutters which can be used as an alternative to wooden door shutters. The door shutters have been developed by using eps sheet as core material and medium density fibre (mdf) board—a product based on agricultural waste and/or agro-forestry plants—as facing and framing material. An interpolymer adhesive based on cashew nut shell liquid and polyurethane resin has been developed for bonding the core material with the core frame and facing material. The properties of the adhesive, the physico-mechanical properties of the eps composite and the properties and field trial results of the developed door shutters are discussed. eps door shutters are found to have properties comparable to wooden door shutters and therefore this new material will be useful for the building industry.