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Rammed earth walls in Mediterranean climate: material characterization and thermal behaviour
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Autor/a:
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Serrano, Susana; Rincón, Lídia; González, Belen; Navarro Ezquerra, Antonia; Bosch, Montserrat; Cabeza, Luisa F.
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Rammed earth is considered a very sustainable construction system due to its low embodied energy, long service life and high recyclability. However, authors found that there is a lack of experimental results at real scale regarding rammed earth thermal behaviour. For this reason, this paper is first focused on the characterization of two different types of earth in order to check the suitability of being used in rammed earth walls. After the characterization, two experimental cubicle-shape buildings were built in Barcelona and Puigverd de Lleida (Spain) in order to test the thermal behaviour of their walls in two different climatic conditions. Temperature profiles inside walls have been monitored using thermocouples and temperature profile of southern walls was analysed in free floating conditions during summer and winter periods of 2013. Results show that thermal amplitude from outside to inside temperatures are decreased by rammed earth walls, achieving constant temperatures in inner surface of southern walls.
The work was partially funded by the Spanish government
(ENE2015-64117-C5-1-R (MINECO/FEDER)), in collaboration
with the City Hall of Puigverd de Lleida. The authors
would like to thank the Catalan Government for the quality
accreditation given to their research group (2014 SGR 123).
This project has received funding from the European
Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)
under Grant agreement Nº PIRSES-GA-2013-610692
(INNOSTORAGE) and from the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement
No 657466 (INPATH-TES). Barcelona cubicle has been
conducted under the direction of the company Casa S-Low,
with the collaboration of Luis Allepuz y Cristian Poza in their
final degree project at EPSEB (UPC). |
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Materia(s):
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-Sustainable
-Earth building
-Experimental set-up
-Low embodied energy materials |
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Derechos:
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cc-by-nc, (c) Susana Serrano et al., 2016
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Tipo de documento:
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Artículo
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Oxford University Press
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