Experimental Investigation of Two Test Setups on Straw Bales Used as Load-Bearing Elements of Buildings

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27120%2F21%3A10248373" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27120/21:10248373 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/11/11/539" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/11/11/539</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings11110539" target="_blank" >10.3390/buildings11110539</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Experimental Investigation of Two Test Setups on Straw Bales Used as Load-Bearing Elements of Buildings

Original language description

The importance of green and sustainable materials in civil engineering is undeniable. Alongside modern practices that improve the properties of standard building materials, there are ways to revive forgotten techniques, including straw bale buildings. Straw bales are load-bearing structures, which are applied based on handed-down experience and lack standard approaches in testing, design, and application. Therefore, a goal ahead is to describe every aspect of the process in technical detail. The objective of this paper is to highlight practical ideas for testing straw bales on a hydraulic press machine and to provide a basic statistical investigation of the results obtained. Two basic series were prepared, one without a side barrier and the other with a side barrier. The reason for this was to delineate the limits of the real behaviour of the straw bale on the load bearing wall of the house. Due to the assumed slight embedment of adjacent bales, the real result were within these limits. The experimental plan, basic results, simplified correlations, and statistical evaluation are presented. Recommendations for a further testing and evaluation are provided. As expected, the results with and without the lateral barrier differ by almost 18% for the true strain.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20102 - Construction engineering, Municipal and structural engineering

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Buildings

ISSN

2075-5309

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000727541400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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