Vegetable Plants and their Fibres as Building Materials; Proceedings of the Second International RILEM Symposium (RILEM Proceedings 7)

Vegetable Plants and their Fibres as Building Materials; Proceedings of the Second International RILEM Symposium (RILEM Proceedings 7)

Editorial Reviews
Book Description

This book examines the state-of-the-art on plants and fibres as building materials for low cost construction, emphasizing their use, properties, fabrication, new procedures and future developments. It makes available research results on new techniques for fibre reinforcement and their use in concrete, stabilized clay and other matrices. Procedures for making vegetable fibres and wood-based building materials in developing countries are also analysed.

Vegetable Plants and their Fibres as Building Materials (RILEM Proceedings 7),H. S. Sobral,Spon Press,041239250X,Building Materials,Congresses,Engineering - Civil,Gardening,Gardening/Plants,Material Science,Plant fibers,Technology & Industrial Arts,Vegetables,Plant physiology

Book Contents:

1. Water Gardening in Containers : Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-182 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin, a-182)
2. Water Gardens : Simple Projects, Contemporary Designs (The Garden Design Series)
3. Winter Gardening in the Maritime Northwest: Cool-Season Crops for the Year-Round Gardener
4. 1001 Questions Answered About Flowers
5. 10 Easy-Care Perennials (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin, a-235)
6. 80 Great Natural Habitat Plants (Ken Druse's Natural Garden Guides)
7. A Baby's Garden : Introducing Your Baby to the Joys of the Garden
8. A Catalog of the Neotropical Collembola
9. Agapanthus : A Revision of the Genus
10. A Gardener's Journal

Book Contents

Recommended Books

1. Drawing: Female Figures
2. Alan Moore: Portrait Of An Extraordinary Gentleman
3. Black & White & Noir
4. Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 with VB.NET 2003
5. Corporate Nonunion Complaint Procedures and Systems: A Strategic Human Resources Management Analysis
6. Apollo in Perspective: Spaceflight Then and Now
7. Cable Systems for High and Ultra High Voltages: Cable Designs and Accessories - Dimensions, Developm
8. Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitons and Biexcitons : And Coherent Nonlinear Optics with Excitons
9. Baise-Moi
10. Art of the Inner Meal: The Power of Mindful Practices to Heal Our Food Cravings, Revised and Expande
11. American Flight Jackets, Airmen and Aircraft: A History of U.S. Flyers' Jackets from World War I to
12. Beautiful Built-ins: Plans for Designing with Stock Cabinets
13. Arnhem
14. Bioethics : The Ethics of Evolution and Genetic Interference
15. Bicycling for Dummies