Composite Materials

While materials in nature are used in buildings, they are generally not used alone. Throughout history, mankind has always used more than one material together while producing complex tools, goods and creating living spaces.

Composite material is the name given to the materials formed by mixing at least two component materials on a macroscopic scale, improving each other's weaknesses, and as a result, obtaining a more durable product while preserving their own properties. Composites are multi-phase materials, consisting of a main phase material and the reinforcement phase that is dispersed in the main phase material and completes a weak aspect of the main material. The key point in this combination is that the modulus of elasticity of the reinforcement phase should be much higher than the main phase’s. Examples of composite materials include quartz and glass fiber mix, concrete and steel reinforcement mix, concrete and textile reinforcement mix, clay and straw mixtures (mudbrick). If only two properties are compared, it can easily be said that one of the materials mentioned in these examples has good performance under compressive forces and the other has good performance under tensile forces.