Review of techniques for identifying the chemical composition of Aluminium Composite Cladding cores

Authors

  • T. Byrnes Facades Diagnostic Team, Buildings Group, Arcadis, Sydney NSW
  • L. Angel Facades Diagnostic Team, Buildings Group, Arcadis, Sydney NSW
  • K. Hunt Facades Diagnostic Team, Buildings Group, Arcadis, Sydney NSW
  • T. Flynn UNSW Sydney image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56748/ejse.19231

Keywords:

Aluminium composite panels, ACP, Flammable cladding, Combustible cladding, Alumina trihy-drate

Abstract

The Grenfell disaster of June 14, 2017 brought into sharp focus the dangers posed by combustible façade materials. Polyethylene core panelling has been implicated in numerous fires such as The Address Downtown, the Saif Belhasa in Dubai and the Lacrosse building in Melbourne. Due to the large number of buildings with potentially combustible cladding, there is significant pressure to find an accurate and fast method to identify such cladding and any associated insulation as part of the overall assessment process. Over the past year, several different approaches to identification have been proposed and in this paper, we recount our expe-riences in developing a methodology to achieve this and discuss the limitations of this method and of competing methods.

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Published

2019-12-01

How to Cite

T. Byrnes, L. Angel, K. Hunt and T. Flynn (2019) “Review of techniques for identifying the chemical composition of Aluminium Composite Cladding cores”, Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering, 19, pp. 14–22. doi: 10.56748/ejse.19231.

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