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This book covers various types of earth construction including adobe, cob and rammed earth. It presents a wide-ranging review of the history of earth building, tracing the development of earthen construction techniques from antiquity to the present day, and showing the development of the techniques with both time and geography. The behaviour of earth building materials is explained using, for the first time, principles from soil mechanics. There is a detailed discussion of strategies for the analysis and conservation of earth buildings to enable engineers, conservation professionals and architects to understand and preserve earth buildings better in the future. Richly illustrated with photographs and diagrams, this book provides an invaluable tool for the conservation of earth buildings.

Paul Jaquin is a civil and structural engineer. After completing an engineering degree at Durham University, he undertook a PhD supervised by Charles Augarde entitled Analysis of historic rammed earth. This research established the link between earth buildings and unsaturated soils and much of the research is included in this book. He has acted as a consultant on sustainable construction projects in the UK and on conservation and development projects in the US, Canada, Australia, UAE, China and Bhutan. Charles Augarde is Reader is Civil Engineering at the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University, and a Chartered Civil Engineer. His research interests are in two principal areas: sustainable earthen construction materials and computational geomechanics. He has published over 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences since 1998, is currently on the Editorial Board for the international journal Computers and Geotechnics and is a former member of the Gotechnique Advisory Panel.

Preface	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. vi
Nomenvlature	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Type Of Earthen Construction	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
Earthen construction principles	p. 3
Monolithic earth walls	p. 5
Unit construction	p. 9
Conclusions	p. 12
History Of Earth Buliding	p. 13
Introduction	p. 13
Eastern Asia	p. 14
Central Asia and the Indus valley	p. 15
Asia	p. 16
Africa	p. 17
Europe	p. 20
North America	p. 21
South America	p. 23
Australasia	p. 25
Conclusions	p. 26
Fundamental Behaviour of Earthen Construction Materials	p. 27
Introduction	p. 27
Soil mechanics	p. 27
Soil strength	p. 28
Effective stress	p. 28
Unsaturated soil mechanics	p. 29
Fundamentals	p. 29
Relative humidity	p. 30
The soil water retention curve	p. 31
Compaction	p. 32
The role of clay	p. 33
The role of stabilisers	p. 34
The effect of water content on the mechanical behaviour of earth structures	p. 34
Current research	p. 35
Conclusions	p. 36
Damage To Earth Buildings	p. 37
Introduction	p. 37
Structural	p. 37
Water	p. 43
Render	p. 48
Organic matter	p. 50
Abrasion	p. 51
Concluding remarks	p. 52
Conservation Strategies	p. 53
Introduction	p. 53
Conservation principles	p. 53
Earth-building analysis and repair strategy	p. 54
Foundation issues	p. 56
Cracks	p. 57
Wall lean	p. 60
Water	p. 64
Face repair	p. 69
Repair to the wall using fallen or similar' material	p. 71
Whole building reconstruction	p. 75
Concluding Remarks	p. 77
References	p. 78
Biblography	p. 81
Index	p. 83
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Earth Building: History, Science and Conservation (EP 101)

Earth Building: History, Science and Conservation (EP 101)

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