Optimizing compressed Earth blocks mix design incorporating rice straw and cement using artificial neural network

• Main Authors: Gapuz, Emerson O., Ongpeng, Jason Maximino C.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Earth construction; Self-organizing maps; Neural networks (Computer science); Civil Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1902
• Institution: De La Salle University

Compressed earth blocks (CEB) in construction is an alternative way of promoting sustainable construction building materials. Compressed earth blocks are used as replacement to concrete masonry wall units. It has many advantages in terms of material cost, thermal properties, embodied energy, sound a...