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Title: | Building with sugar and corn |
Author: | Pinto, J. Paiva, A. Costa, A. Tavares, P. Fernandes, L. Murta, A. Varum, H. |
Keywords: | Earth-based materials performance sugars corn biomimetic |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Abstract: | Two alternative and highly sustainable building techniques are presented and described. The techniques are sugar reinforcement of earth based material and corncob based thermal isolation material. Some experimental results highlight the advantages and disadvantages of these two proposed techniques whose study is still beginning. The water resistance of earth based materials may be increased by adding a certain amount of sugar. On the other hand, corn cob material may have a similar thermal behavior as the common thermal insulation materials currently used in the building industry. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/6997 |
ISBN: | 9788864930077 9788864930053 |
Publisher Version: | http://www.apms-conference.org/apms2010.php |
Appears in Collections: | DECivil - Comunicações |
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