When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Wall plug - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_plug

    [4] [6] Other varieties of wall plug are mechanical anchors for heavy duty loads and hollow wall fixings for fixing to plasterboard. The first mechanical anchor, the Rawlbolt, was designed in the 1930s by the Rawlplug company and the first fixing for hollow walls was the Toggle Bolt, which was also designed by Rawlplug in 1941.

  3. Drywall - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drywall

    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. Gypsum block - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsum_block

    Gypsum is a mineral and non-combustible building material (a class A1 building material in accordance with the German DIN 4102, the European EN 13501 or the British BS 476 or the American ASTM E119) consisting of calcium sulphate dihydrate (CaSO 4 ·2H 2 O). Because of the stored water, gypsum is a good fire protection building material. In the ...

  5. Cyanoacrylate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate

    The cyanoacrylate group in the monomer rapidly polymerizes in the presence of water to form long, strong chains. [ 1 ] Specific cyanoacrylates include methyl 2-cyanoacrylate (MCA), ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate (ECA, commonly sold under trade names such as "Super Glue" and "Krazy Glue"), n -butyl cyanoacrylate (n-BCA), octyl cyanoacrylate , and 2-octyl ...

  6. First fix and second fix - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_fix_and_second_fix

    First fix and second fix are terms used in the UK and Irish housebuilding and commercial building construction industry.. First fix comprises all the work needed to take a building from foundation to putting plaster on the internal walls.

  7. Anchor bolt - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_bolt

    The simplest – and strongest – form of anchor bolt is cast-in-place, with its embedded end consisting of a standard hexagonal head bolt and washer, 90-bend, or some sort of forged or welded flange (see also stud welding). The last are used in concrete-steel composite structures as shear connectors. [6]

  8. Superhard material - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhard_material

    A material is also considered hard if it resists plastic deformation. If a material has short covalent bonds, atomic dislocations that lead to plastic deformation are less likely to occur than in materials with longer, delocalized bonds. If a material contains many delocalized bonds it is likely to be soft. [10]

  9. Structural material - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_material

    Steel is a ductile material, which will behave elastically until it reaches yield (point 2 on the stress–strain curve), when it becomes plastic and will fail in a ductile manner (large strains, or extensions, before fracture at point 3 on the curve). Steel is equally strong in tension and compression.