Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
Title | Experimental analysis of clay boards made with coir |
Publication Type | Communications in International Conferences |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Authors | Cenci D., Eires R., and Fangueiro R. |
Abstract | The purpose of this work was to study the incorporation of coir in composite materials for earth construction in order to identify and evaluate their performance when applied to building elements such as non-structural walls, wall cladding, and suspended ceilings. Several compositions with different percentages of clay, sand, gypsum, and coir were studied. The density of the mixes with coir addition had an expected reduction, as well as the bending strength. However, the inclusion of sand in the percentages studied increased the bending strength. Still, the addition of gypsum highly increased the mixtures bending strength. |
Conference Name | 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL FIBERS |
Edition | R.Fangueiro |
Pagination | 238 - 239 |
Date Published | 2019-07-01 |
Publisher | Universidade do Minho, Tecminho |
Conference Location | Porto |
ISBN | 978-972-8600-30-3 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/69682 |
Keywords | clay, Natural fibers |
Rights | restrictedAccess |
Peer reviewed | yes |
Status | published |
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more
Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt