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Cultivated Building Materials : Industrialized Natural Resources for Architecture and Construction.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hebel, Dirk E.
Otros Autores: Heisel, Felix
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; Challenges, Strategies, and Goals; Introduction: Cultivated Building Materials; Production Back to The City; The Ape of Materials; The Industrialization of Timber
  • A Case Study; Standardization of a Natural Resource; Bamboo, a Cultivated Building Material; Introduction; Constructing with Engineered Bamboo; Upscaling The Bamboo Industry; The Ecological Impact of Industrially Cultivated Bamboo; Engineered Bamboo Products
  • A Sustainable Choice?; From Cultivated Materials to Building Products; Soil-Dependent Products. Agriculture; Wood Foam; Biopolymers: Cement Replacement.
  • Biopolymers and Biocomposites Based on Agricultural ResiduesLignin-based Carbon Fibres; Nutrient-Dependent, Soil-Independent Products. Biotechnology; Fungal Mycelium Bio-Materials; Limestone-producing Bacteria: Self-healing Concrete; Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate: Multilayer/Multimaterial Coatings on Non-conductive Materials; Bio-Inspired Products. Biomimicry; Replicating Natural Design Strategies In Bio-Inspired Composites; Living Architecture (Liar): Metabolically Engineered Building Units; About the Authors and Contributors; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits.