Designing with Alternative Building Materials and Review of Building Materials [Hardcover]

This book explains possible alternative building materials along with the test results including review of common building materials, earth engineering and construction, suitable soil, soil mechanics and production, masonry construction, rammed earth construction, use of ferro-cement units for projects, and fibre reinforced concrete.

1. General Items and Brief Comments on Building Materials and Earth Technology  2. Earth/Clay, Alternative Building Materials, Cob, Wattle-and-Daub, and Some Other Methods  3. Compressed Earth Blocks (CEB), Soil/Earth, Stabilisers, Fibres, and Applications  4. Adobe, Clay, Fly AshLime Bricks, and Masonry Construction  5. Rammed Earth Construction  6. Ferro-Cement  7. Fibre-Reinforced Concrete  8. Brief Comments on Building Materials  9. Concrete as a Building Material  10. Steel Structures  11. Computer-Aided Work, Education, Training, Quality, Reliability, and Communication  12. Sustainability/Resilience, Hazards, Risks, and Structural and Site Safety  13. Construction, Supervision, Site Accidents, Project, and Risk Management  14. Repair Work to Structures  15. Construction Photographs from Projects  16. Summary and Comments from Review on Alternative Building Materials

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, arlc