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2. Cement board - Wikipedia

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   A cement board is a combination of cement and reinforcing fibers formed into sheets, of varying thickness that are typically used as a tile backing board. [1] Cement board can be nailed or screwed to wood or steel studs to create a substrate for vertical tile and attached horizontally to plywood for tile floors, kitchen counters and backsplashes.

3. Drywall - Wikipedia

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   Various sized cuts of 1 ⁄ 2 in (13 mm) drywall with tools for maintenance and installation . Drywall (also called plasterboard, dry lining, [1] wallboard, sheet rock, gib board, gypsum board, buster board, turtles board, slap board, custard board, gypsum panel and gyprock) is a panel made of calcium sulfate dihydrate (), with or without additives, typically extruded between thick sheets of ...

4. USG Corporation - Wikipedia

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   The USG building is 538 ft (164 m) tall and houses 35 floors and 1,100,000 square feet (100,000 m 2) of space, including 12,000 square feet (1,100 m 2) of retail, a 650-seat restaurant expansion, and two levels of below-grade parking for 160 cars. USG had its own entrance with a lobby and occupied the first nine floors exclusively and parts of ...

5. Fiber cement siding - Wikipedia

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   When used as siding boards, widths between 130mm and 300mm (5.25 inch to 12 inch) are available. [4] Fiber cement thicknesses vary between 4.5-18mm and also vary in density – the lower density resulting in a fibrous rough edge when cut and the higher density having a cleaner smoother edge when cut.

6. Transite - Wikipedia

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   Transite originated as a brand that Johns Manville, an American company, created in 1929 for a line of asbestos-cement products, including boards and pipes. [1] In time it became a generic term for other companies' similar asbestos-cement products, and later an even more generic term for a hard, fireproof composite material , fibre cement ...

7. Mineral bonded wood wool board - Wikipedia

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   Wood wool lightweight board (surface structure) Mineral bonded wood wool boards (WW boards) are building boards made of wood wool fibres, water and the binding agents cement, caustic magnesia and gypsum. Mineral bound wood wool boards are used in a wide range of applications, e.g., thermal insulation, acoustic insulation, indoor decoration, etc.

8. Magnesium oxide wallboard - Wikipedia

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   Magnesium oxide wallboard (10 mm thickness) Magnesium oxide, more commonly called magnesia, is a mineral that when used as part of a cement mixture and cast into thin cement panels under proper curing procedures and practices can be used in residential and commercial building construction.

9. Fiber-reinforced concrete - Wikipedia

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   Lignocellulosic fibers in a cement matrix can degrade due to the hydrolysis of lignin and hemicelluloses. [12] [13] The amount of fibers added to a concrete mix is expressed as a percentage of the total volume of the composite (concrete and fibers), termed "volume fraction" (V f). V f typically ranges from 0.1 to 3%. The aspect ratio (l/d) is ...