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, 2022 The choice of material solutions and the appropriate technology for the execution of works have a significant impact on the success of construction projects.
Jerzy Rosłon
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, 2021 The construction industry is one of the most environmentally detrimental industries in the world, impacting directly the use of raw materials, their determination of use involving the whole lifecycle, as well as all their surrounding environment. However,
G. Bertino +5 more
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Self-adaptive Construction Materials: Future Directions
, 2022 Self-healing construction materials have caused great interest in the last decade due to their several applications for civil engineering. A self-healing material is defined as an artificial or synthetically created material that has the built-in ability
Norambuena-Contreras, J +4 more
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International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials, 2017 Insulating concrete is a material designed to reduce heat conduction with pores/insulations, and these pores strongly affect the material characteristics.
Sang-Yeop Chung +2 more
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, 2023 This investigation proposes an analytical approach for analyzing the impact of random defects on light steel frame materials. The addition of random defects for the overall and the component units was achieved by integrating Matlab R2022a and Ansys R19.0
Xinlong Ma +4 more
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Natural Fiber-Reinforced Mycelium Composite for Innovative and Sustainable Construction Materials
FibersFiber-reinforced mycelium (FRM) composites offer an innovative and sustainable approach to construction materials for architectural structures. Mycelium, the root structure of fungi, can be combined with various natural fibers (NF) to create a strong and
M. Voutetaki, A. Mpalaskas
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Sustainable Solutions with Geosynthetics and Alternative Construction Materials—A Review
Sustainability, 2021 Geosynthetics have proven to provide sustainable solutions for geotechnical and geoenvironmental problems when used with natural materials. Therefore, the expected benefits to the environment when geosynthetics are associated with unconventional or ...
E. Palmeira, G. Araújo, E. Santos
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Building Materials and Construction: Constructing a Quality of Life [PDF]
, 2018 Catastrophes and new societal ambitions energized the huge construction effort undertaken between 1910 and 1970. The floods of 1917 and 1953 led to enormous investments in coastal defences. The government also undertook major investments in the construction of roadways and other infrastructural works.
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, 2019 A secondary by-product, quarry fines, has previously been investigated for applications in high volume as pavement construction materials. Results from a series of laboratory tests suggest qualified basic properties except for the possibility of frost ...
Korkiala-Tanttu, Leena +5 more
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Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2023 This paper sets out the findings of an investigation on the development of a method for calculating aboveground pre-strained cylindrical sheaths, in view of design parameters: the winding angle, pitch and thickness on a concrete base, as a result of ...
Ulzhan Ibraimova +9 more
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