# Assessment of the Possibilities of Developing Effective Building Thermal Insulation Materials from Corrugated Textile Sheets

## TL;DR

Researchers explored using corrugated textile sheets to create lightweight, strong thermal insulation materials for buildings.

## Contribution

This study introduces corrugated textile sheets as a novel approach to building thermal insulation without increasing density or thermal conductivity.

## Key findings

- Corrugated sheets provided good mechanical properties without increasing density or thermal conductivity.
- Finely corrugated sheets showed significantly higher compressive and bending strengths compared to non-corrugated sheets.
- Wave size and adhesive layer had the most significant impact on material density and thermal conductivity.

## Abstract

Low-density thermal insulation materials tend to settle during operation or under small loads. Resistance to loads and settling is ensured by increasing the density of thermal insulation materials several times. This increases the weight of the material and the structure and production costs. In this work, using various technological processes, corrugated textile sheets and thermal insulation materials were produced from textile fabric. The development of such materials as effective thermal insulation materials for building insulation has not yet been studied. The corrugation of textile sheets enabled the thermal insulation material to exhibit good mechanical and deformation properties without increasing its density or thermal conductivity. The density of the specimens of the thermal insulation material made from corrugated sheets ranged from 76.8 to 51.9 kg/m3, and the thermal conductivity ranged from 0.0535 to 0.0385 W/(m·K). The most significant influences on density and thermal conductivity were the wave size and the adhesive layer. The density of unglued sheets of the same composition ranged from 51.3 to 29.8 kg/m3, and the thermal conductivity ranged from 0.0530 to 0.0371 W/(m·K). The highest compressive and bending strengths were observed in thermal insulation materials prepared from finely corrugated sheets. Their compressive stress at 10% deformation was 17.3 kPa, and their bending strength was −157 kPa. In comparison, the compressive stress of thermal insulation materials of the same density as non-corrugated sheets was only 0.686 kPa and, in the case of bending strength, 9.90 kPa. The obtained results show that the application of materials engineering principles allows us to improve the performance characteristics of materials.