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Radiometric Investigation of Black Sands as Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials for Building Materials in Aguas Dulces, Uruguay
Aguas Dulces sand is frequently used as a component for preparing building materials, leading us to study it and characterize it as a Naturally...
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Building Materials and Binders
Building materials and binders have been used since ancient times. Here, either gypsum or lime are the basic materials, which are processed into the...
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Stabilizers for Earthen Building Materials
Inadequacy of soils with respect to key properties is overcome by mechanical and chemical modification to improve the strength, durability, and...
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Influence of Pore Network Parameters on Hygric Property Prediction for Porous Building Materials
AbstractHygric pore network modelling, which characterises the macroscopic moisture storage and transport properties by simulating the microscopic...
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Characterization of Soils Used in Earthen Building Materials
To achieve a greater understanding and to standardize the mechanical behavior of earthen building materials, characterizing the constituent soils for...
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Reuse of plastic waste as building materials to enhance sustainability in construction: a review
Substantial growth in the utilization of plastic has increased tremendously in recent years, which may lead to the disposal of tons of plastic waste...
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Variations in water quality and their impacts on mechanical properties and microstructure of cement-based building materials
Many develo** nations have suffered from structural failures. Most researches on structural failures cite poor design, poorer material and lack of...
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Stabilization of Earthen Building Materials by Select Native Binders
Increased environmental and energy concerns have renewed global interest in raw earth as a building material. Low-energy requirements, low-cost, high...
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Role of Soil Suction in the Engineering Behavior of Earthen Building Materials
Earthen construction materials are being recognized as manufactured unsaturated soil blocks with the soil water content playing an important role in...
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Analysis of alternative building envelope solutions to improve energy efficiency
improving the building envelope can play a central role in energy efficiency (E.E) and embodied carbon (EC) emissions reduction during the building...
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Characterization of Water Transport in Porous Building Materials Based on an Analytical Spontaneous Imbibition Model
Spontaneous imbibition controls the movement of water from the environment into natural and engineered porous construction materials (e.g. stone,...
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The Traditional Building Materials in the Ksours of Rissani
The preservation and restoration of historical monuments are essential for cultural heritage and identity. In Morocco, traditional construction...
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Building-SAT: a whole building life cycle assessment tool framework to quantify the global warming potential of buildings in South Asian Region
This paper presents a framework to mathematically model the Green House Gas (GHG) emissions of any type of building, especially applicable for South...
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Development of a building information model-guided post-earthquake building inspection framework using 3D synthetic environments
Computer vision-based inspection methods show promise for automating post-earthquake building inspections. These methods survey a building with...
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Machine learning-integrated 5D BIM informatics: building materials costs data classification and prototype development
Non-informatics cost estimation is a tedious process and requires substantial amount of time and manual operations. However, BIM adoption approaches...
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Multivariate statistical assessment of natural radioactivity and radiological hazards data of cement building materials mainly used in Cameroon
The present study aimed to assess radioactivity level in thirty cement samples from five main cement types manufactured and commonly used in Cameroon...
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Characterization of Earthen Building Materials in Gölcük Vernacular Houses
Gölcük in Kocaeli city is located in the northwestern region of Turkey on the Anatolian fault line. It has been subjected to various civilizations...
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Treatments of nanofiber cellulose biomass for cementitious building materials
We propose in this work to investigate the effects of the inclusion of low concentrations of cellulose nanofibers, also known as nanofibrillated...
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Enhancing insulation properties of building stones
Recently, using rocks, especially limestone, in the facades of buildings has become pervasive due to its characteristics such as hardness,...
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Thermal treatment of Kalabsha kaolin deposits, south of the Western Desert, Egypt: contribution to geopolymer production as green building materials
Kaolin samples were collected to study the mineralogical, texture, chemical composition, thermal behavior, and treatment and also the possibility to...
