A Study on Application of Reinforced Expanded Polystyrene Wall Panel Technology

It is not possible to build a house for human being at affordable cost and at rapid or faster way. In India there is huge housing shortage for urban & rural. Due to group of low income of human being it is not possible or it is difficult to build an economical house. The material required for construction of building are on high demand, as they are back bone of construction activity. Also the cost of construction, time required to complete the project, due to dubious climatic condition, varying workmanship and unanticipated inflate in material cost is major problem. To fulfill these all basic needs, India requires new innovative, energy efficient building material for strong & long life housing in rapid track construction method at affordable cost. Therefore one such material is reinforced expanded polystyrene wall panel, which is better replacement to the conventional building material. This lightweight reinforced expanded polystyrene wall panel provides faster construction & contributes to environmental protection, can give a solution to any of the above issues and concerns. An investigation focused on the strength capability of lightweight sandwich wall panel, method of construction & its properties. Additionally, this EPS panel deals with problem of connection for diagonal shear reinforcement & cover over the EPS .This problem can be avoided by placing the mild steel bars above the EPS & below the welded galvanized steel mesh .Also study deals with reinforced EPS wall panel strength under flexural loading (one point load) by treating these EPS panel as floor also studying strength under axial load by treating these EPS panel as a wall. It is found that cost of material for construction of building using reinforced PES technology is lesser than the brick wall construction. This Reinforced Expanded Polystyrene Technology gives a chance to meet the housing demand at the lower cost. Thus we aim to prove that by using Reinforced Expanded Polystyrene Technology as an alternate building material, we can achieve an easy, rapid & economical method of construction.