Effect of reinforcing wool fibres on fracture and energy absorption properties of an earthen material

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Plant aggregates and fibers in earth construction materials: A review (2016, background): “The behavior of samples containing wool fibers is given in Figure 4 [18].”
Physical, mechanical and durability properties of soil building blocks reinforced with natural fibres (2015, methodology): “Animal wastes such as sheep wool fibre [11] and cow-dung [8] have also been used to enhance the properties of soil building blocks/bricks.”
Experimental characterization of Italian composite adobe bricks reinforced with straw fibers (2015, background): “5% and 3% in Sardinia, whereas fibers are not longer than minimum dimension of bricks, which is generally 100 mm [17,18].”
Effect of fibre aspect ratio on mechanical properties of soil building blocks (2015, background): “Most studies on the use of natural fibres for enhancement of soil blocks have focused on the fibre content, with few incorporating fibre lengths in their experimental design [1, 5, 16, 17].”