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Article

Rammed Earth Construction: A Proposal for a Statistical Quality Control in the Execution Process

by
Jacinto Canivell
1,*,
Juan Jesús Martín-del-Río
1,
Raúl M. Falcón
2 and
Carlos Rubio-Bellido
1
1
Department of Architectural Construction II, Universidad de Sevilla, Av. Reina Mercedes 4, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
2
Department of Applied Mathematics I, Universidad de Sevilla, Av. Reina Mercedes 4, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2020, 12(7), 2830; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12072830
Submission received: 21 February 2020 / Revised: 28 March 2020 / Accepted: 31 March 2020 / Published: 2 April 2020
(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
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Abstract

Unlike other common contemporary construction materials such as concrete, mortars, or fired clay bricks, which are widely supported by international standards and regulations, building with rammed earth is barely regulated. Furthermore, its quality control is usually problematic, which regularly encourages the rejection of this technique. In the literature, many authors have suggested ways to safely build a rammed earth wall, but only a few of them have delved into its quality control before and during the construction process. This paper introduces a preliminary methodology and establishes unified criteria, based in a statistical analysis, for both the production and the quality control of this constructive technique in cases dealing with both samples and walls.
Keywords: rammed earth; quality control; compressive strength; non-destructive testing rammed earth; quality control; compressive strength; non-destructive testing

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Canivell, J.; Martín-del-Río, J.J.; Falcón, R.M.; Rubio-Bellido, C. Rammed Earth Construction: A Proposal for a Statistical Quality Control in the Execution Process. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2830. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12072830

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Canivell J, Martín-del-Río JJ, Falcón RM, Rubio-Bellido C. Rammed Earth Construction: A Proposal for a Statistical Quality Control in the Execution Process. Sustainability. 2020; 12(7):2830. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12072830

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Canivell, Jacinto, Juan Jesús Martín-del-Río, Raúl M. Falcón, and Carlos Rubio-Bellido. 2020. "Rammed Earth Construction: A Proposal for a Statistical Quality Control in the Execution Process" Sustainability 12, no. 7: 2830. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12072830

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Canivell, J., Martín-del-Río, J. J., Falcón, R. M., & Rubio-Bellido, C. (2020). Rammed Earth Construction: A Proposal for a Statistical Quality Control in the Execution Process. Sustainability, 12(7), 2830. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12072830

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