Traditional building materials based on earth offer the following advantages: easily
accessible, inexpensive, and above all, environmentally friendly. This investigation is …

After the seismic events of the 20th and 29th of May 2012 in Emilia (Italy), most of the
monumental and historic buildings of the area were severely damaged. In a few structures …

The research addressed in the paper is aimed at calibrating a numerical model developed
by using a free open-source finite-element code for the assessment of the structural …

Unfired and fired bricks were widely used as building materials in Antiquity across many
geographically and temporally distant cultures. Studies on archaeological bricks have long …

This paper investigates the dynamic response of three sample buildings belonging to the
Seismic Observatory for Structures, the Italian network for the permanent seismic monitoring …

Abstract In Ecuador, 95.9% of housing is built with the use of masonry. Current construction
practice in Ecuador shows that masonry is mainly used as enclosing or partition elements …

This study addresses the evaluation of the confinement effect in the experimental
determination of compressive strength in solid fired clay units. The experimental campaign …

In recent years, the study of the indoor microclimate has assumed increasing importance,
both in relation to the health of people living in confined environments for a considerable …

This article presents the results of the LNEC-3D shaking table tests on a full-scale masonry
cross vault without and with the textile reinforced mortar used as strengthening solution. The …

Insulating refractory bricks with different densities have been successfully produced from
firing of sludge of water treatment produced from the water treatment plant at El-Kureimat …