Towards sustainable waste management through structural testing of rice straw bale cement plasters

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 109, Issue , 2008, Pages 435-445

  Garas, G L ^a   Allam, M E ^a   Ragab, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Black cloud; Cement plaster tests; Environmental pollution; Rice straw bales

Indexed keywords

CEMENT; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ELASTIC MODULUS; POLLUTION; RICE; STRAW; SUSTAINABILITY; TESTING METHOD; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA; CAIRO [EGYPT]; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 58849094098     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/WM080451     Document Type: Article

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