Category: 5. Misc. Building Materials

Glass is being used as an engineering material. It is a mixture of metal silicates, one of which is usually of alkaline content. It is amorphous, transparent or translucent. It can also be considered as a solid supercooled solution of various metal silicates of infinite viscosity. For the purpose of classification, glass can be divided…

There are other materials used to construct buildings. Here an attempt is made to introduce various miscellaneous materials used in construction works.