Vegetable Plants and their Fibres as Building Materials
Vegetable Plants and their Fibres as Building Materials

Author: H.S. Sobral

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-05-05

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 1134990952

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This book examines the state-of-the-art on plants and fibres as building materials for low cost construction, emphasizing their use, properties, fabrication, new procedures and future developments. It makes available research results on new techniques for fibre reinforcement and their use in concrete, stabilized clay and other matrices. Procedures for making vegetable fibres and wood-based building materials in developing countries are also analysed.

Vegetable Plants and Their Fibres as Building Materials
Vegetable Plants and Their Fibres as Building Materials

Author: H.S. Sobral

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-05-05

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1134990960

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This book examines the state-of-the-art on plants and fibres as building materials for low cost construction, emphasizing their use, properties, fabrication, new procedures and future developments. It makes available research results on new techniques for fibre reinforcement and their use in concrete, stabilized clay and other matrices. Procedures for making vegetable fibres and wood-based building materials in developing countries are also analysed.

Fibre Reinforced Cement and Concrete
Fibre Reinforced Cement and Concrete

Author: R.N. Swamy

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1992-07-23

Total Pages: 1372

ISBN-13: 1482271222

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This book presents the latest research development on fibre reinforced cementitious materials, especially those related to ageing and durability. The book forms the Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Sheffield in July 1992, the latest in a series of RILEM symposia on this subject, organised by RILEM Technical Committee 102-AFC Ageing and Durability to Fibre Cement Composites.

Eco-efficient Construction and Building Materials
Eco-efficient Construction and Building Materials

Author: Fernando Pacheco Torgal

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-07-31

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0857298925

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Eco-efficient Construction and Building Materials provides essential reading about materials for the construction industry in the twenty-first century. It covers the latest findings in the field, especially the toxicity aspects, embodied energy, construction and demolition wastes, the use of wastes in concrete, masonry units, materials reinforced with vegetable fibres, earth construction, the durability aspects, and also the importance of nanotechnology to the development of more environmentally-friendly materials. Based on more than nine hundred references, Eco-efficient Construction and Building Materials is of fundamental importance to academics, engineers and architects who are dedicated to the creation of a greener and more holistic construction industry.