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Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings: Design and Construction
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In this article, McHenry, author of the best-selling Adobe - Build It Yourself, provides the most complete, accurate, and factual source of technical information on building with earth.Abstract:
Earth is the oldest and most widely used building material in the world today. It's abundant, inexpensive, and energy-efficient. But if you're building with earth, simplicity of material needn't be an excuse for poor planning. Paul Graham McHenry, author of the best-selling Adobe - Build It Yourself , here provides the most complete, accurate, and factual source of technical information on building with earth. Lavishly illustrated with scores of photographs and drawings, Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings spells out details of: - soil selection - adobe brick manufacturing - adobe brick wall construction - rammed earth wall construction - window and door detailing - earth wall finishes - foundations - floor and roof structures - insulation - mechanical considerations. Whether you're designing a new building or renovating an existing structure, Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings can show you how to achieve better results.read more
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Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture
TL;DR: The technology of earth building is described in this article, where the properties of earth as a building material are discussed and an overview of particular building elements and their applications in the construction of buildings.
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The using of waste phosphogypsum and natural gypsum in adobe stabilization
TL;DR: In this paper, waste phosphogypsum (PG) and natural gypsum were used as stabilization material to improve the properties of adobe soil and to reduce its disadvantages at least partially.
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Chronological Description of the Spatial Development of Rammed Earth Techniques
TL;DR: A chronological study of rammed earth distribution through observation of monumental buildings to aid the study of this building technique is presented in this article. But, it is shown that the rammed-earth technique is likely to have originated independently in China and around the Mediterranean, and spread through the movement of people and ideas to many other parts of the world.
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Analysis of historic rammed earth construction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that rammed earth can be viewed in a geotechnical engineering framework and that doing so helps to explain many aspects of the material behaviour.
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Adobe bricks under compression: Experimental investigation and derivation of stress–strain equation
TL;DR: In this article, the response of adobe bricks to compressive loading is investigated and the experimental data is used for the formulation of a constitutive model that describes adobe's full stress-strain response.