| Title |
Towards an easy decision tool to assess soil suitability for earth building |
| ID_Doc |
29829 |
| Authors |
Rojat, F; Hamard, E; Fabbri, A; Carnus, B; McGregor, F |
| Title |
Towards an easy decision tool to assess soil suitability for earth building |
| Year |
2020 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.119544 |
| Abstract |
In the European Union, most of the wastes from the building sector are composed of earths. Earth construction may be an interesting outlet for the re-use of these wastes, while meeting the challenge of circular economy: in particular, it involves low-embodied energy processes and earth material can be reused for building by end-of-life. Nonetheless, the identification of suitable earths for construction remains an issue. To overcome this problem, an option may be to analyse earth building heritage, which is at least one-century old in Europe: indeed, earth employed in these buildings can be regarded as "time-tested", and thus suitable for construction. In this paper, more than 20 different earths collected in rammed earth heritage building in France are presented. The results are confronted both to literature and to several classifications employed in soil sciences. A classification system based on granularity and clay activity will be relevant to address the convenience of earth for building purposes. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| Author Keywords |
Buildings; Structures & design; Geomaterial characterization; Soil classification; Soil suitability; Rammed earth; Cob |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) |
| EID |
WOS:000545559400051 |
| WoS Category |
Construction & Building Technology; Engineering, Civil; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary |
| Research Area |
Construction & Building Technology; Engineering; Materials Science |
| PDF |
http://manuscript.elsevier.com/S095006182031549X/pdf/S095006182031549X.pdf
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