Bowed roof structure, structure panel and method for using same

A bowed roof of a building, said building being suitable for human habitation, said roof comprising a framing system having a ridge and at least a beam said framing system configured to support a plurality of bowed prefabricated structural insulative building panels arranged in edge-to-edge relationship said framing system is a system which is separate from said panels at least some of said panels comprising:

• a substantially homogeneous core having substantially uniform thickness bonded to two adjacent skins, an outer and an inner skin, said skin being of material different from said core material and said skins having, therebetween and bonded thereto, said core of insulative material, said core and said skins in combination, being substantially rectangular with two short panel edges and two long panel edges said two short edges being linear, opposed and parallel one to the other and said two long edges being opposed and parallel and said two long edges having a bowed shape with a radius from one of the short edges to the other of the short edges, said radius of appropriate magnitude, at least one of said two adjacent skins further having a long cross sectional area parallel to said long panel edges and a short cross sectional area parallel to said two short panel edges;
• the two opposed, linear and parallel short panel edges having an edge configuration adapted to abuttingly interfit short edges of abutting panels when said abutting panels are placed in abutting and interfitting relationship, said edge configuration lying solely in the plane of said at least one of said two adjacent skins and having a surface area greater than the short cross sectional area of said skin at at least one of said short panel edges and said configuration of at least one short edge of said two opposed, linear and parallel short edges of a character such that when a plurality of said panels are assembled in mating edge to mating edge relationship, tensile and compression forces are transmitted between adjacent panels in the plane of said skins and one of the two linear, parallel and opposing short edges of said panels and said abutting panels may be abutting at said beam;
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• said two long opposed and parallel edge having an edge configuration adapted to abuttingly interfit long edges of substantially identical panels which are placed in abutting and interfitting relationship, said edge configuration lying solely in the plane of said at least one adjacent skin and having a surface area greater than the long cross sectional area of said skin at at least one of said long panel edges and said configuration of at least one long edge of said two opposed and parallel long edges of a character such that when a plurality of said panels are assembled in mating edge to mating edge relationship, tensile and compression forces are transmitted between adjacent panels in the plane of said skins such that an assembly of a plurality of said panels onto said framing system results in said bowed roof.