Abstract
The paper analyses the development and market potential of composite structure boards for the construction and built environment. The composite material is based on using recycled plastic reinforced with glass fibres. For some plastic materials, the Young modulus is relatively low and a sandwich structure built from plastic skin and foam core has to be used in order to achieve the required stiffness. The structural boards will be formed by a single one or two step moulding process instead of fabricated in a number of processes. The contens of the board has been optimised to reduce its weight and to enable it to be moulded from compounds using a high percentage of recycled plastics. Test samples have been tested at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) Civil Engineering laboratory to evaluate the influences of the type of plastic, the skin foam ratio and the percentage of glass fibres into the composite material mechanical properties.
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