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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento |Vol. 10 Nº 18| JUN 2025 | Dossier: The multiscalar. Deadline for full manuscript submission: December 31, 2024. 

Environmentally friendly wallboard panels. Research report

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Vol. 3 No. 5 (2018): November
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2018.49879

Abstract

Here are shown some important research advances about the design process of a new building construction element, this is a wallboard flat panel manufacturated with a nucleus made of gypsum, agave fibers and water, mixed with different portions of eps beads (Expanded polystyrene plastic). Natural fibers used here were obtained from a mexican plant called agave, the most important raw material in the tequila industry. Fibers and plastic particles are both recovered materials from the industrial waste flow and contribute to improve the wallboard’s mechanical properties. Wallboards samples made of different mixtures were tested in labs and important research output is reported here. This project has been sponsored by the mexican government and carried out by the Tecnological Innovation for design, a research group from the University of Guadalajara, México. This paper focuses in output and data from the late research stages.

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building construction elements, gypsum plasters, plastics recovering

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González Madariaga, F. J., Gómez Gómez, J. F., & Rossa Sierra, L. A. (2018). Environmentally friendly wallboard panels. Research report. RChD: Creación Y Pensamiento, 3(5). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2018.49879
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