Download or read book Vegetable Plants and Their Fibres as Building Materials written by H.S. Sobral and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-05-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the state-of-the-art on plants and fibres as building materials for low cost construction, emphasizing their use, properties, fabrication, new procedures and future developments. It makes available research results on new techniques for fibre reinforcement and their use in concrete, stabilized clay and other matrices. Procedures for making vegetable fibres and wood-based building materials in developing countries are also analysed.