Firing Optimization of Clay Bricks
It is shown how the optimum firing conditions of clay bricks subjected to different degrees of firing can be estimated by plotting the specific surface area against the saturation coefficient of bricks.
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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Is land‐use deregulation enough to deliver housing?: The case of institutional frictions in India
Abstract This paper examines whether land use deregulation increases housing supply in the presence of additional institutional frictions, such as ill‐defined property rights. India's urban land ceiling (ULC) laws, which put limits on individual ownership of private vacant land in the largest cities, were repealed during the 2000s.
Arnab Dutta +2 more
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The Manjacazi district is composed of vast alluvial plains with aplenty clay soils in their numerous valleys. Regardless of its high proportion, clay soils from Manjacazi are only exploited for conventional pottery and local ceramic bricks.
Vicente Albino Manjate +2 more
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Coal ash foamed bricks stabilised with hydrated limeactivated GGBS (HL-GGBS) / Mohamad Ezad Hafez Mohd Pahroraji [PDF]
Coal-fired thermal power plant produces million tonnes of coal ash as an industrial by-product and is significant to be used as raw material for fabrication of bricks. Coal ash could potentially substitute the traditional materials i.e.
Mohd Pahroraji, Mohamad Ezad Hafez
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Handmade clay bricks: chemical, physical and mechanical properties [PDF]
The clay brick masonry that is much used in historical structures often is in a rather poor state of conservation. In order to intervene correctly in these buildings, it is convenient to characterize the old material.
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Studi Pengaruh Lama Waktu Proses Pembakaran Terhadap Kuat Tekan Batu Bata Setelah Penambahan Bahan Additive Iss 2500 (Ionic Soil Stabilizer) [PDF]
Brick is one of the materials of building which have been long known and used by the people bothin rural area as well as urban area. Brick is a material made of clay with or without additionalmixture through several processes.
Adha, I. (Idharmahadi) +2 more
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The Material Basis of 18th‐Century Meissen Porcelain
ABSTRACT In the summer of 1708, the quest for making hard‐paste porcelain from Saxonian clay and other mineral resources succeeded. This was achieved by applying as its essential ingredient newly discovered pure kaolin from Heidelsberg near Aue, western Saxon Ore Mountains.
Robert B. Heimann
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Experimental research on the use of industrial waste as addition for the production of unfired clay bricks [PDF]
Since ancient times we know the efficiency of the technology of building houses using clay soil in various forms: mixed, in the form of bricks, etc. Until now, there have been numer-ous studies to improve these technologies and to obtain structures that ...
Gabriela CĂLĂTAN +3 more
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