The most widely used in composite materials industry are concrete installations bonded with different binders. Higher energy consumption and several ecological problems make their manufacture to become more and more expensive. The growing market of construction works and constant extension of real estate property increases the demand for cheap and new materials with desired features. As a result of many years intensive scientific researches there is now a practical possibility to offer an alternative and unique products technology of manufacture based on binding suspension (bricks, wall, heat insulating and refractory materials and other) – all of them of desired size and shape. The experience of the composite materials technology development shows that in comparison with traditional the microhardness of materials with an ultradispersive structure increases several times and the specific surface increases by an order contributing to a decrease in the sintering temperature. The longevity of similar material is essentially increasing provided structure is forming under conditions of the service site. Thus, building industry will obtain improved service life and performance from binding suspensions as field installations will continue to move toward adopting and utilizing practices based on technology described herein, rather than on cement technology. Relative to conventional composite materials products with mechano-chemical binders will continue to gain in popularity because of the following advantages: low energy consumption and low prices for the products; ecological safety of the manufacture process and of the ready-made products; good mechanical and design properties; moisture and cold proofness; surface need not be fired; no shrinkage of the products after drying; simple to manufacture a variety of different products; ready availability and flexibility in design; absence of manufacture wastes.
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