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  2. Bamboo-mud wall - Wikipedia

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    Isometric sectional construction view of bamboo-mud wall. Bamboo-mud wall is a common filling in wood frame walls found in Taiwan. Bamboo wattle reinforce mud wall structure by weaving themselves together, including thicker, wider horizontal strips called lî-kīng (籬梗) and thinner, narrower horizontal strips called lî-á (籬仔).

  3. Compressed earth block - Wikipedia

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    Building a CEB project in Midland, Texas in August 2006. A compressed earth block (CEB), also known as a pressed earth block or a compressed soil block, is a building material made primarily from an appropriate mix of fairly dry inorganic subsoil, non-expansive clay, sand, and aggregate.

  4. Isopach map - Wikipedia

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    An isopach map displays lines of equal thickness in a layer where the thicknesses are measured perpendicular to the layer boundaries. Isopach maps are also referred to as True Stratigraphic Thickness (TST) maps. [2] [3] An isochore map displays lines of equal thickness in a layer where the thicknesses are measured vertically.

  5. Cordwood construction - Wikipedia

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    Cordwood masonry wall detail. The method is sometimes called stackwall because the effect resembles a stack of cordwood. A section of a cordwood home. Cordwood construction (also called cordwood masonry or cordwood building, alternatively stackwall or stovewood) is a term used for a natural building method in which short logs are piled crosswise to build a wall, using mortar or cob to ...

  6. Foam concrete - Wikipedia

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    As mostly no coarse aggregate is used for production of foam concrete the correct term would be called mortar instead of concrete; it may be called "foamed cement" as well. The density of foam concrete usually varies from 400 kg/m 3 to 1600 kg/m 3. The density is normally controlled by substituting all or part of the fine aggregate with the foam.

  7. Thinset - Wikipedia

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    The history of thinset dates back to the post-World War II era when the tile industry sought more efficient methods for tile installation. [7] Before thinset, the standard method for installing tiles was the thick-set or mud-set method, which involved a thick layer of a sand and cement mixture.

  8. Cement-mortar lined ductile iron pipe - Wikipedia

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    Cement-mortar lined ductile iron pipe is a ductile iron pipe with cement lining on the inside surface, and is commonly used for water distribution. Cement-mortar lined ductile iron pipe is governed by standards set forth by DIPRA ( Ductile Iron Pipe Research Association ), and was first used in 1922 in Charleston, South Carolina .

  9. Range table - Wikipedia

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    2 Range table for British 3 inch (76.2 mm) Stokes Mortar, 1917. 3 Notes. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Government Printing Office ...