Stone in Architecture
Subtitle: Properties, Durability
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9783540576266
Subjects: Architectural structure & design; Building construction & materials; Structural engineering; Science/Mathematics; Masonry Construction; Materials For Engineering; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Stone; Earth Sciences - Geology; Earth Sciences - Mineralogy; Engineering - Civil; Technology / Construction & Construction Trades; Building stones
First sentence: Rock is the basic building material of the earth's crust and the original building material used by man to serve as protection from the severe ice age and post-ice age raw climate; shelters were made of assembled field stones to form a basic house.