ALUCOBOND® - Product Properties
ALUCOBOND® is a composite panel consisting of two aluminium cover sheets and a plastic core. The superb properties of this material boost one’s inspiration and offer constructing engineers and designers a whole new range of solutions.
Characteristics
| Advantages
| Low weight, high rigidity,
perfect flatness | Low cost for substructures and fasteners, Smooth handling on the site | Large variety of colours | Unlimited planning and design | Weatherproof | Supplied ready to install | Vibration-damping | No additional sound-damping needed | Can easily be folded and bent | Simple processing using conventional tools | Large panel sizes, fast installation,
pre-fabricated panels | Short construction times, adherence to schedules, low cost | | |
ALUCOBOND® perfectly adapts to today's requirements. It is the combination of formability, flatness, stability and weather resistance that characterizes this material. Due to its composite structure, ALUCOBOND® can take on many different shapes. Though both stable and flat ALUCOBOND® can be perfectly formed without any loss to its rigidity.
The composite structure of ALUCOBOND® results in an impressive strength-to-weight ratio, even when comparing large panel sizes. Despite its low weight, which makes ALUCOBOND® easy to transport and handle in the factory and on site, its rigidity and high strength make the panels keep their shape and remain flat, even when exposed to extreme temperature changes.
Comparison of thickness and weight of panels with equal rigidity
ALUCOBOND® compared with solid aluminium
Required thickness and actual weights of panels with same rigidity | | ALUCOBOND® | Aluminium | Rigidity (E J) | Section modulus | Thickness | Weight | Thickness | Weight | 1250 kN cm²/m | 1.25 cm³/m | 3 mm | 4.5 kg/m² | 2.7 mm | 7.3 kg/m² | 2400 kN cm²/m | 1.75 cm³/m | 4 mm | 5.5 kg/m² | 3.3 mm | 8.9 kg/m² | | | | | | |
Recycling
ALUCOBOND® is fully recyclable, i.e. both the core material and the aluminium cover sheets are recycled and can be used in the production of new material.
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