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Experimental test and mechanism analysis of soil crust erosion resistance of rammed earth Great Wall in rainy season [PDF]
Scientific ReportsRammed earth is a kind of cleaning material, widely used in all kinds of buildings in the world. The Great Wall of ancient China is a typical world cultural site built from rammed earth.
Liang Liu +9 more
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Rammed earth construction with granitic residual soils: The case study of northern Portugal [PDF]
Construction and Building Materials, 2013 Building in unstabilised rammed earth results in low environmental impact. However, northern Portugal has not historical tradition with this technique, and thus the suitability of the local granitic residual soils is unknown.
Rui A Silva +2 more
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Failure of rammed earth walls: From observations to quantifications [PDF]
Construction and Building Materials, 2014 International audienceNowadays, rammed earth construction is attracting renewed interest throughout the world thanks to its "green" characteristics in the context of sustainable development. Firstly, using a local material (soil on site or near the site),
Tan-Trung Bui, Q -B Bui
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Effect of moisture content on the mechanical characteristics of rammed earth [PDF]
Construction and Building Materials, 2014 In this paper, influence of moisture content on the mechanical characteristics of rammed-earth has been studied. Samples from different soils (sandy, clayey, stabilised) were manufactured and tested in unconfined compression at several moisture contents.
Quoc-Bao Bui +2 more
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Modelling the structural behaviour of rammed earth components [PDF]
Civil-Comp Proceedings, 2014 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, B.H.V. Topping and P. Iványi, (Editors), Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, Scotland.The rammed earth technique has a significant presence in the earthen built ...
Lourenço, Paulo B. +4 more
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Rammed earth walls in Serón de Nágima castle (Soria, Spain): Constructive lecture [PDF]
, 2012 The Raya or frontier between the kingdoms of Castile and Aragón was fortified with a system of castles and walled-cities that were useful during the several conflicts that took place in the Late Medieval Age.
Gil Crespo, Ignacio Javier
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Cleaner Materials, 2023 During the last decades, rammed earth technology has been explored worldwide because of a growing concern for sustainable constructions. A relevant, contemporary technical culture of rammed earth developed in the south-west of Western Australia (WA) from
Vittoria Strazzeri, Ali Karrech
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Evaporation process and tensile behavior of fiber-reinforced rammed earth
Yantu gongcheng xuebao, 2021 The rammed earth is an environmental-friendly building material. Its mechanical properties draw lots of attention among researchers and engineers in recent years. In order to improve the tensile performance of the rammed earth, the fiber-reinforcement is
RONG De-zheng , TANG Chao-sheng , ZENG Hao , CHENG Qing , LI Hao-da , SHI Bin
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Research on Optimization of the Thermal Performance of Composite Rammed Earth Construction
Energies, 2022 Rammed earth (RE) is a low-tech recyclable building material with good heat storage and moisture absorption performance that can better maintain the stability of the indoor thermal environment and improve indoor comfort.
Shenwei Yu +4 more
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Energies, 2022 The climate crisis is one of the most important problems today. In the process of human building, the use of cement, steel, and other industrial materials in the process of building construction and recycling has brought a huge burden to the natural ...
Qinglong Gao +4 more
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