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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"building material"”.
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Bamboo: An Alternative Building Material for Urban Ethiopia
… the potential of bamboo as an alternative building material for low cost housing units suitable for urban Ethiopia. The rational for the application of bamboo comes from its abundance throughout the country, and its proven physical properties that equate it to other building material like …
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Lime Stabilised Murram as a Building Material in Kenya
In Kenya soil is the basic house construction material for low-income groups. However, its lack of durability and low strength, are limiting factors to its use. The aim of the current research programme was to establish, for lime-stabilised murrain (from Kenya), the optimum lime content, compaction …
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Study of building material emissions and indoor air quality
Building materials and furnishings emit a wide variety of indoor pollutants, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs). At present, no accurate models are available to characterize material emissions and sorption under realistic indoor conditions. The objective of this thesis is to fill that gap. …
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Surface space : digital manufacturing techniques and emergent building material
… thesis explores tectonic possibilities of new material and forming techniques. The design process is catalyzed by experimenting different configurations of the material.This project attempts to develop inventive ways to use polymeric material. Incorporating both digital and hand based tools, …
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The testing of Virginia brick as a building material
… particularly to determine whether or not building bricks made in this State were equal to those manufactured in other sections of the country, and especially equal to those products of adjoining states with which they come into competition through importation. As was anticipated the tests …
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The use of fly ash to make a building material
… which should be used in the manufacture or a building material from fly ash, and special reference will be made to the ash of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Power Plant, Blacksburg, Virginia.
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Device for selecting lightwave ranges via computer control for studying building material properties via goniophotometer
To enable the fast and accurate cataloging of material samples, I designed a filtration device for selecting specific visible and near-infrared light wavelengths related to the red, green, and blue sensitivity peaks of a visible detection camera and the pixel response for a near-infrared camera. …
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An investigation into the structural suitability of standard grade Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) as an innovative building material
Submitted in fulfilment of the academic requirements for the Degree of Master of Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2019.
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Rethinking low-cost green building material selection process in the design of low-impact green housing developments
… also lies in the effective use of low-cost green building materials and components (LCGBMCs),primarily because of their potential to conserve energy use, reduce life-cycle cost, lessen ecological footprints, and revive lost cultural traditions. Until recently however, only very few of these …
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Up to the waist in mud! : the assessment and application of earth-derivative architecture in rural Bangladesh
… about architecture that uses earth as the prime· building material in the context of rural Bangladesh. In extreme environmental conditions of annual floods, rain and atmospheric humidity, the use of earth, the most readily available building material, faces serious constraints. Yet examples of …
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Building
Building for concrete is temporary. The building of wood and steel stands against the concrete to give form and then gives way, leaving a trace of its existence behind. Concrete is not a building material. One does not build with concrete. One builds for concrete.
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Modeling Diffusion-Controlled Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds From Layered Building Materials
Building materials are a major source of indoor air contaminants. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are an important class of contaminants prevalent in indoor air. Attempts have been made to model the emission of VOCs from building materials. Diffusion has been shown to control the rate of mass …
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Building debris
… The initial investigation of rammed earth as a building material is followed by site-specific operations at the courtyard of MIT building N51 and on sites located along a three mile stretch of Interstate 93 in Dorchester.
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Re-defining the Architectural Design Process Through Building a Decision Support Framework for Design with Reused Building Materials and Components
Waste from construction and demolition-building activities is increasing every day. Landfills have almost reached their capacity. When thinking about the negative impact of demolishing activities on the environment it becomes very necessary to think about reusing and recycling building materials in …
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Design, Synthesis and Applications of Complementary Quadruply Hydrogen Bonding Modules: A. Redox Responsive Naphthyridine and Application in Polymers. B. Probing the Polymeric Environmental Effect on the Complexation of Strong Hydrogen Bonding Species
… drawbacks that exist in the use of DNA as a building material for nanotechnology, simpler DNA inspired modules have been designed. These are units that have the desired property of forming multiple hydrogen bonds. The compounds can be prepared conveniently from inexpensive starting materials …
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Site-specific propagation prediction for wireless in-building personal communication system design
… optics model to predict propagation in buildings for personal communication system (PCS) design. Background on the growth of wireless communications is given, and the importance of accurate propagation models is discussed. The peculiarities of propagation in mobile and portable radio …
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A study of the garbage pickers within the Port Shepstone disposal site
… many purposes and includes the provision of building material for "shacks".
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Biophysical studies of chromatin folding and unfolding
Chromatin, the building material of chromosomes, is folded and unfolded by several levels, providing a physical basis of coordinated DNA functions in eukaryotic cells. Chromatin folding is started with a linear long string of nucleosomes, connected by segments of DNA called linker DNA. Further …
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Material worlds : [de]constructing the ethos of concrete in Mumbai
What can a building material tell us about a city? As the most widely used structural building material in the world, reinforced cement concrete shapes the urban form of several of our largest megacities Sao Paulo, Cairo, Karachi and Mumbai, to name a few. The predominant building form concrete …
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