A corrugated sheet metal wall sheathing for resisting external excitations such as wind or earthquake of light-framed wall structures. The sheathing has sheet profile proportioned to insure the top flutes deform laterally and yield at the end of the flute before the onset of any failure mode. A transverse slot in included in each top flute and adjacent web of the sheathing and spaced at intervals along the length of the sheathing.

A structural sheathing product used in construction that is adapted to wrap around a corner or otherwise bend for specific installations. In the preferred embodiment, a pre-scored sheathing board creates a hinge-like portion enabling an efficient and clean bend of the sheathing around a corner without fracturing or damaging the exterior surface of the sheathing, in particular, without damaging any exterior water barrier of such sheathing. The pre-scored sheet of sheathing board may have multiple locations of scoring lines. The scoring may be along the vertical length or horizontal length of the sheet of sheathing or both. A method of manufacture of the pre-scored sheathing board is also disclosed herein.

Provided is a base plate unit, which is of an integrated structure made of fiber reinforced polymer-matrix composite and comprises a base plate unit body and foot plates. The base plate unit body comprises at least one bearing part, each bearing part comprising a panel, a plurality of web plates extending downwards from the bottom of the panel, and bottom supports disposed at the lower end of the web plates. The web plates comprise two side-web plates on the two sides of the panel and a middle web plate in the middle. The foot plates are disposed on the two outer sides of the bottom of the base plate unit body, and are formed by the bottoms of the two side-web plates on the outmost side of the base plate unit body respectively extending outwards horizontally. Also provided is a base plate unit provided with a cavity filling member.

A panel structure manufacturing device includes a shaping device that shapes the surface of a thermoplastic resin into a relief shape and forms a plate-like core member; a heating device that selectively heats the surface of the core member; and a pressurizing device that pressurizes a heated spot of the core member that the heating device has heated and a plate-like face plate, and fuses together the core member and the face plate.

A device comprises at least two shaping cylinders each comprising a multitude of protrusions radially extending outward from the cylinder. The device further comprises a first drive unit for driving unit for driving at least one of the first shaping cylinder and the second shaping cylinder, a device frame arranged to support the first shaping cylinder and the second shaping cylinder in a rotating fashion such that the multitude of first protrusions is arranged to engage with the multitude second of protrusions and a biasing module arranged to apply a biasing force to at least one of the shaping cylinders. In this device, the biasing module, the first protrusions and the second protrusions are arranged such that when netting is provided between the shaping cylinders, the netting is force fitted between the shaping cylinders at substantially each rotational position of the shaping cylinders.

The present invention provides a sandwich panel and a sandwich panel structure formed by welding a plurality of the sandwich panels, each sandwich panel comprising: a flocking core layer; and skin layers laminated on both surfaces of the flocking core layer, respectively, wherein the sandwich panel comprises at least one contact portion, at which the two skin layers abut each other. In addition, the present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a sandwich panel, the method comprising the steps of: preparing a sandwich panel comprising a flocking core layer and skin layers laminated on both surfaces of the flocking core layer, respectively; and applying heat and pressure to at least one surface of the skin layers, thereby forming at least one contact portion.

Provided is a base plate unit, which is of an integrated structure made of fiber reinforced polymer-matrix composite and comprises a base plate unit body and foot plates. The base plate unit body comprises at least one bearing part, each bearing part comprising a panel, a plurality of web plates extending downwards from the bottom of the panel, and bottom supports disposed at the lower end of the web plates. The web plates comprise two side-web plates on the two sides of the panel and a middle web plate in the middle. The foot plates are disposed on the two outer sides of the bottom of the base plate unit body, and are formed by the bottoms of the two side-web plates on the outmost side of the base plate unit body respectively extending outwards horizontally. Also provided is a base plate unit provided with a cavity filling member.

An insulative panel having a frontside and an opposing backside, and one or more other sides that extend from the frontside to backside, the one or more other sides angling inwardly from the frontside to the backside so that the panel has a tapering profile, the panel being configured to fit into a stud or other such cavity having standardized dimensions, the panel comprising an insulating material with an R-value suitable for use in building construction and remodeling.

Core element for sandwich elements, wherein the core element has at least two hemisphere panels which are combined with one another, wherein each hemisphere panel has, between planar portions, and spaced apart from one another, uniform hemispherical elevations, wherein the two or in each case two hemisphere panels face one another by way of their elevations, wherein, with two or in each case two hemisphere panels combined with one another, the elevations of one hemisphere panel each bear with their apexes or apex surfaces against a planar portion of the other hemisphere panel, and wherein two hemisphere panels are connected to one another by virtue of the elevations being connected, in the region of their apexes or apex surfaces, to the planar portion of the other or another hemisphere panel against which they bear. Moreover, the invention also relates to the use of a core element and to a method for producing a core element.

Prefabricated wall assemblies for the construction of buildings have a corrugated panel and preferably include at least one backside panel. The corrugated panel has one or more vertical channels and several horizontal channels. The vertical channels extend the entire panel height and are recessed from the front face. The horizontal channels extending the entire panel width and are also recessed from the front face so they intersect with the vertical channel. The horizontal channels are almost as wide as the vertical channels, and are greater than one-half the vertical channel width. The backside panel is connected to the corrugated panel to form a structural panel assembly. The backside panel can be a shear panel or other backside flat panel, a backside corrugated panel symmetrically mirroring the corrugated panel, a backside corrugated panel asymmetrically mirroring the corrugated panel, a sandwiched corrugated panel, a relief panel or any combination thereof.