Moisture ingress in rammed earth: Part 1 - The effect of soil particle-size distribution on the rate of capillary suction

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 269-280

  Hall, Matthew ^a   Djerbib, Youcef ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capillary suction; Moisture ingress; Rammed earth

Indexed keywords

BINDERS; CAPILLARITY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MOISTURE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POROSITY; SOILS;

CAPILLARY SUCTION; MOISTURE INGRESS; RAMMED EARTH;

BUILDING MATERIALS;

EID: 1842454693     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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