Manufacturing Engineering & Technology
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ISBN: 9780133128741
Author: Serope Kalpakjian, Steven Schmid
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 9, Problem 32QLP
When the American Plains states were settled, no trees existed for the construction of housing. Pioneers cut bricks from sod—basically, prairie soil as a matrix and grass and its root system as reinforcement. Explain why this approach was successful.
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