Water permeability of walls built of masonry units

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1942
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 55 KB
• Volume: 234
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(42)91321-8

✦ Synopsis

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o not slide permanently out of position; rather, tensions are set up which cause the fiber to return to its original shape after the removal of the external force.

It is of interest to note that the function of the crosschains in wool is very similar to that of the cross-chains which are presumably formed during the vulcanization of rubber. Indeed, the similarities between these materials are so striking that wool may in a sense be considered to be a vulcanized fiber, in which respect it differs from all othertextile fibers.