Earth construction has received in the last decade an increased attention by the scientific
community illustrated by a tenfold increase of the published research articles when …

Under the trend of digitization and global carbon reductions, clay construction has
increasingly attracted attention due to advantages such as an excellent thermal …

Nowadays, rammed earth construction is attracting renewed interest throughout the world
thanks to its “green” characteristics in the context of sustainable development. Firstly, using a …

Rammed earth has been considered as a sustainable construction technique that uses local
soil to build structural walls. However, some natural soil do not have adequate strength and …

The paper presents an experimental program aiming at assessing the mechanical
performance of rammed earth walls, namely under compression and shear loading. Axial …

In this paper, the experimental behaviour of mud brick reinforcement is present. The effect of
natural fibers such as straw, wood chips carpentry, rice husk and palm fibres on the …

Rammed earth construction is attracting a renewed interest throughout the world thanks to
its “green” characteristics in the context of sustainable development. Several studies have …

Abstract In Colombia and other South American countries, most structures in the colonial
period were built with adobe and/or rammed earth masonry. During past earthquakes, some …

This paper presents the details of experimental testing of soil, adobe masonry units, and
assemblages for the first time in Pakistan. Adobe units were tested both in compression and …

Rammed earth is one of the oldest masonry construction techniques such that there are
many ancient structures built of rammed earth still existing. Recently, applications of rammed …