The Effect of Relative Humidity and Temperature on the Unconfined Compressive Strength of Rammed Earth

Christopher Beckett; Charles E. Augarde

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31116-1_39

The Effect of Relative Humidity and Temperature on the Unconfined Compressive Strength of Rammed Earth

Christopher Beckett, Charles E. Augarde

School of Engineering

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Rammed earth (RE) is an ancient construction technique now being considered for construction in a wide range of climatic conditions. As such, a new range of scientific investigations treating it as a highly unsaturated soil are being undertaken by several institutions in order to fully understand its properties and behaviour. This paper introduces laboratory work determining the effect of changing climatic conditions on the unconfined compressive strength of RE and offers comments on preliminary results; full results and their interpretations shall be discussed in a forthcoming paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Unsaturated Soils
Subtitle of host publication	Research and applications
Publisher	Springer
Pages	287-292
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-31343-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31116-1_39
Publication status	Published - Jun 2012

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Rammed earth
Suction
Thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) coupled processes

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