Designing with Alternative Building Materials and Review of Building Materials
eBook - ePub

Designing with Alternative Building Materials and Review of Building Materials

  1. 568 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Designing with Alternative Building Materials and Review of Building Materials

About this book

This book explores alternative building materials and their test results. It includes a review of common building materials, earth engineering and construction, suitable soil types, soil mechanics and production, masonry construction, rammed earth construction, the use of ferro-cement units in projects, and the application of fibre-reinforced concrete. Other topics such as project management, computer-aided design, education and training for engineers, construction work, quality control, safety aspects, communication, applications and case studies, accompanied by construction photographs, are covered in this book.

Features:

  • Focuses on alternative building materials and their applications in projects.
  • Provides a useful overview of earth and concrete alternative construction materials.
  • Comprehensively covers different types of fibre-reinforced concrete.
  • Explains relevant sustainability and environmental benefits.
  • Includes a case study on carbon fibre composite material used for strengthening a column.

This book is aimed at professionals in civil and construction engineering.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040154038
Edition
0
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Index
Technology & Engineering

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Author Biography
  9. Chapter 1 General Items and Brief Comments on Building Materials and Earth Technology
  10. Chapter 2 Earth/Clay, Alternative Building Materials, Cob, Wattle-and-Daub, and Some Other Methods
  11. Chapter 3 Compressed Earth Blocks (CEB), Soil/Earth, Stabilisers, Fibres, and Applications
  12. Chapter 4 Adobe, Clay, Fly Ash–Lime Bricks, and Masonry Construction
  13. Chapter 5 Rammed Earth Construction
  14. Chapter 6 Ferro-Cement
  15. Chapter 7 Fibre-Reinforced Concrete
  16. Chapter 8 Brief Comments on Building Materials
  17. Chapter 9 Concrete as a Building Material
  18. Chapter 10 Steel Structures
  19. Chapter 11 Computer-Aided Work, Education, Training, Quality, Reliability, and Communication
  20. Chapter 12 Sustainability/Resilience, Hazards, Risks, and Structural and Site Safety
  21. Chapter 13 Construction, Supervision, Site Accidents, Project, and Risk Management
  22. Chapter 14 Repair Work to Structures
  23. Chapter 15 Construction Photographs from Projects
  24. Chapter 16 Summary and Comments from Review on Alternative Building Materials
  25. Index