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2. Characterization of Earth Used in Earth Construction Materials

Authors : Jean-Emmanuel Aubert, Paulina Faria, Pascal Maillard, Kouka Amed Jérémy Ouedraogo, Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon, Elodie Prud’homme

Published in: Testing and Characterisation of Earth-based Building Materials and Elements

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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The objective of this chapter is to present the physical, geotechnical, chemical and mineralogical characterization techniques used to characterize the raw material (earth and mineral addition, such as sand and gravel) contained in the earth materials manufactured with different techniques: earth bricks, rammed earth or cob. This chapter will be divided into 6 sections. The first will present the method used to find the references considered in this state of the art and we will carry out a general qualitative analysis of these references. The other sections will deal respectively with granular, geotechnical, chemical and mineralogical characteristics and, finally, the last part will be dedicated to field tests.

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Title: Characterization of Earth Used in Earth Construction Materials
Authors: Jean-Emmanuel Aubert
Paulina Faria
Pascal Maillard
Kouka Amed Jérémy Ouedraogo
Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon
Elodie Prud’homme
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Testing and Characterisation of Earth-based Building Materials and Elements
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-83296-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-83297-1

Copyright Year: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83297-1_2

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