Cladding
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Cladding is the covering of one material with another. It may refer to the following:
- Cladding (metalworking)Cladding (metalworking)Cladding is the bonding together of dissimilar metals. It is distinct from welding or gluing as a method to fasten the metals together. Cladding is often achieved by extruding two metals through a die as well as pressing or rolling sheets together under high pressure.The United States Mint uses...
- Cladding (fiber optics)Cladding (fiber optics)Cladding is one or more layers of material of lower refractive index, in intimate contact with a core material of higher refractive index. The cladding causes light to be confined to the core of the fiber by total internal reflection at the boundary between the two. Light propagation in the...
- Cladding (construction)Cladding (construction)Cladding is the application of one material over another to provide a skin or layer intended to control the infiltration of weather elements, or for aesthetic purposes....
- Copper claddingCopper claddingThere are four main techniques used today in the UK and mainland Europe for copper cladding a building:* Seamed-cladding : max 600mm by 4000mm 'seam centres'....
- Rainscreen claddingRainscreen claddingRainscreen cladding is a construction facade rainscreen system which consists of the subframe and different finishes like cladding panels, brick, ceramic tiles, reconstituted stone boards, ceramic granite based on a natural stone, high-pressure laminates, composite aluminium panels, metal panels ,...
- Copper cladding
- Cladding (nuclear fuel)
- Cladding (boiler)