Omar S Es-Said
Loyola Marymount University, USA
Title: Evaluation for long-term structural shading materials for use in harsh environments
Biography
Biography: Omar S Es-Said
Abstract
This paper evaluated the performance and durability of leading structural shading materials to be used in the Super Containerized Living Units (Super-CLU’s) project. Fift een unique shading fabrics were tested in fi ve diff erent experiments in order to evaluate their strength, resistance to wind, abrasion, and heat and to assess their heat transmissivity and breathability. A current United States Navy material was used as a control material for the evaluation of the other tested materials. Samples of each fabric were fi rst tensile tested in both their warp and weft orientation to create an ‘as-received’ baseline condition. Th en, additional samples of each fabric were exposed to wind, abrasion, or heat and subsequently tensile tested to observe the change in tensile strength compared to the ‘as-received’ samples. Th e heat transmissivity and breathability testing was conducted separately