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Mineral Building Traditions in the Himalayas: The Mineralogical Impact on the Use of Clay as Building Material

Mineral Building Traditions in the Himalayas: The Mineralogical Impact on the Use of Clay as Building Material

Feiglstorfer, Hubert

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ISBN10: 3110589966
ISBN13: 9783110589962
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Nov 5 2019
Pages: 395
Weight: 2.80
Height: 1.10 Width: 8.40 Depth: 11.20
Language: English

Mineral building materials and regionally related methods of processing are an essential part of building culture throughout the Himalayas. Based on transregional knowledge transfer, raw materials have been able to find an ecologically and economically optimised destiny in particular local applications. For this study, samples were collected as raw material or originated from certain building components. Samples were analysed according to their material properties and architectural application. Traditional building techniques were examined and their correlation with traceable material qualities studied. Clay-specific properties such as colour, grain size distribution, grain shape, hardness, plasticity, organic additives, or bulk and clay mineral properties were used as comparative parameters.

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