• Glass Fibre

• Foam core (polyurethane, polyethilene…)

• Glass Fibre

• Epoxy

• Aramid fibre

o The first concept is designed as a main beam of glass fibre (pultrusion) surrounded by
foam cores on both sides to support and spread homogeneously all the stresses that
the beam has to support. The corners of the glass fibre part are not 90º to avoid the
appearance of cracks due to fatigue or constant effort. Firstly, in the case of having to
fabricate 10 beams, the project is viable; and secondly, making 1500 beams would also
be aceptable (because the use of pultrusion method decreases the total costs), the
main problem would be, in any event, the high density of the pultruded glass fibre,
what gives the beam a high weight.

o The second concept is made with a sandwich look-like structure by epoxy, foam core
and glass fibre (pultrusion) and the production process would consist in, after having
the pultruded glass fibre piece, adding the foam cores and the epoxy layers through
vacuum infusion. This would make the process slower and more expensive when
trying to design 1500 beams, but in the case of having to design only one floor (10
beams), there should not be any major problem. The epoxy surface is designed to bear
with surface impacts of any kind, the foam cores to distribute all the stresses and the
glass fibre piece to give stiffness and act as the main support of the structure.

o The third design is the most complex one. It is made by a glass fibre cylindrical core
produced through pultrusion surrounded by aramid fibres with the method of
filament winding (+55⁰); after having a thick enough layer, two pieces of epoxy
(previously fabricated by pressure moulding) are disposed in both sides of the beam.
Then, another layer of aramid fibre is applied (-55⁰). Finally, the whole piece is covered
 by an epoxy piece by RTM (Resin transfer moulding). This concept is probably unviable
for a 1500 beams because of the complexity that it involves, but it is a posible design
for a 10 beams structure. It is designed also in a way that coud be stacked as multi-
beams. In general it is a very compact, lightwheight and strong beam; being able to
bear not only flexural but also shear stresses thanks to the 2 aramid layers in mirrored
angles.

For 1 floor design my preferences in order would be (in number of the design): 3 › 2 › 1

For 150 floor design, my preferences in order are: 1 › 2 › 3