Sound insulation of fibre reinforced mud brick walls

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1035-1041

  Binici, Hanifi ^a   Aksogan, Orhan ^b   Bakbak, Derya ^a   Kaplan, Hasan ^c   Isik, Bilge ^d  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fibre; Reinforced mud bricks; Sound insulation

Indexed keywords

BRICK; BRICKMAKING; BUILDING MATERIALS; CEMENTS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FIBERS; ICE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PAPER; SOUND INSULATING MATERIALS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BASALTIC PUMICES; FIBRE; FIBRE REINFORCED; INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS; INDUSTRIAL NOISES; MUD BRICKS; REINFORCED MUD BRICKS; SOUND INSULATION PERFORMANCES; TURKISH;

SOUND INSULATION;

EID: 54349096347     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2008.05.008     Document Type: Article

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