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Life cycle cost of different Walling material used for affordable housing in tropics
Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2017 The energy consumption of affordable housing industry plays a vital role in the environmental sustainability, waste generation and energy consumption.
Chameera Udawattha, Rangika Halwatura
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Selection of Best House Construction Materials for Roofs and Walls Regarding Cost, Weight, thermal Insulation and Mechanical Properties [PDF]
Engineering and Technology Journal, 2017 Research includes the study of the effect of using different local and low cost construction materials in thecreation of traditional buildings and the effect of using these materials in terms of cost, loads over the soil,and the thermal insulation.The ...
Amer Mohamed Ibrahim +2 more
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Energy Conversion and Management: X, 2021 The roof is the component of the envelope more subjected to climatic excitations, and it contributes to a significant part of the total building's cooling load in hot climates. Therefore, the thermal optimization of hollow concrete blocks for roofing can
Yassine Chihab +3 more
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Investigative Study on the Properties of Hollow Concrete Blocks
International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer Science & Technology, 2022 The utilization of workmanship structures is as yet broad all through the world. Hollow concrete blocks have supplanted customary bricks in late development as a result of the upsides of higher bearing limit, farmland insurance, and energy protection [1].
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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2016 A type of concrete hollow block with typical structure and a common phase change material (PCM) were adopted. The PCM was filled into the hollow blocks by which the multiform composite PCM hollow blocks were made.
Yuan Zhang +3 more
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International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials, 2021 Autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) block masonry has been widely used for bearing walls of multi-story buildings or non-bearing walls of high-rise buildings because of its unique advantages, such as lightweight, low pollution output, and excellent thermal
Tianxiang Pi +3 more
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Hollow Concrete Building Blocks: Their Manufacture and Use [PDF]
Scientific American, 1905 n ...
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, 2009 Hollow block walls, whether originally built with external render and internal plaster, or more recently with external render and insulated drylining, represent the most common form of wall construction in Leinster over the last 50 years (see image in Figure 8).
Little, Joseph +1 more
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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2019 To improve the thermal performance of external masonry walls, a new tenon composite block is proposed as the external maintenance component which contains the internal hollow concrete block part, the external block part, and the extruded polystyrene ...
Hui Su +4 more
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Thin layer concrete blockwork in compression: an experimental analysis
Engineering Structures and Technologies, 2015 The compressive strength of concrete block masonry is dependent upon the unit compressive strength, the type of unit, the mortar and the form of masonry construction (Mirza et al. 1995).
Ayman Trad +3 more
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