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CO2 Fluxes and Soil Responses to Straw and Herbicide in Peanut
Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Peanut cultivation plays an important agronomic role in Brazil, especially in rotation with sugarcane, promoting biological nitrogen fixation and improving soil quality. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that the combined use of sugarcane mulch, peanut cultivation, and herbicide application would affect soil CO₂ fluxes, soil chemical ...
Heytor Lemos Martins +7 more
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Experimental Investigation on Innovative Stress Sensors for Existing Masonry Structures Monitoring
Applied Sciences, 2023 Historical masonry structures often suffer gradual deterioration that in many cases can compromise the safety levels and the operating conditions of the buildings.
Lidia La Mendola +6 more
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How to build a nestbox in a wall cavity [PDF]
, 2015 Building conservation is fraught with ethical dilemmas. At one extreme there is pressure to freeze buildings at a particular point in time and another to modernise them beyond all recognition.
Hippisley-Cox, Charles
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social considerations are often overlooked in efforts to achieve sustainable development, despite being critical for building equitable and resilient global value chains. This study addresses this gap by applying a social life cycle assessment to three key Portuguese forest wood supply chains—uncoated woodfree paper, natural cork stoppers, and
Andreia Santos +3 more
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Constructional Features of the Stiffness of Shearwalls in Lightweight Steel Framed Buildings
Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering, 2019 For low-rise buildings frame technologies using lightweight thin-wall steel constructions have become significantly widespread. The main influence on a building’s spatial rigidity under lateral forces is taken by shearwalls.
Zinkevych Oksana +2 more
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Sustainable Strengthening Techniques for Masonry Structures [PDF]
, 2016 Reducing the energy consumption is an important objective of the construction industry and this also applies for renovation, retrofit and refurbishment of existing buildings.
Borri, Antonio +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been identified as a potential catalyst for a paradigm shift within the construction industry, due to its capacity to enhance sustainability, reduce waste, and augment design flexibility. This study presents a systematic literature review (SLR) that explores the application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in ...
Antonio Mastropasqua +3 more
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Journal of Innovative Science and EngineeringThe wildland-urban interface (WUI) has emerged as a focal point of wildfire management and community resilience efforts worldwide. The WUI, defined as areas where settlement reaches natural landscapes, presents a unique set of challenges for wildfire ...
Aslan SOYER, Hamid Farrokh Ghatte
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The 1985 Chile earthquake: Structural characteristics and damage statistics for the building inventory in Vina del Mar [PDF]
, 1987 The Chile earthquake of 3 March 1985 resulted in an effective peak acceleration of 0.36g in the coastal city of Vina del Mar. The city had an inventory of over 400 reinforced concrete buildings ranging in height from 5 to 23 stories.
de la Llera, J.C. +2 more
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Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary
Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
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