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  2. Double-skin facade - Wikipedia

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    The brown outer facade can be seen being assembled to the inner white facade via struts. These struts create a walkway between both 'skins' for ventilation, solar shading and maintenance. The double-skin façade is a system of building consisting of two skins, or façades, placed in such a way that air flows in the intermediate cavity. The ...

  3. Brickwork - Wikipedia

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    A leaf is as thick as the width of one brick, but a wall is said to be one brick thick if it as wide as the length of a brick. Accordingly, a single-leaf wall is a half brick thickness; a wall with the simplest possible masonry transverse bond [definition needed] is said to be one brick thick, and so on. [21]

  4. Monocoque - Wikipedia

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    Monocoque (/ ˈ m ɒ n ə k ɒ k,-k oʊ k / MON-ə-ko(h)k), also called structural skin, is a structural system in which loads are supported by an object's external skin, in a manner similar to an egg shell.

  5. Cavity wall - Wikipedia

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    A cavity wall is a type of wall that has an airspace between the outer face and the inner, usually structural, construction. [1] The skins typically are masonry , such as brick or cinder block . Masonry is an absorbent material that can retain rainwater or condensation.

  6. Concrete block - Wikipedia

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    A pallet of "8-inch" concrete blocks An interior wall of painted concrete blocks Concrete masonry blocks A building constructed with concrete masonry blocks. A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, or concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various other terms, is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction.

  7. Stressed skin - Wikipedia

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    The Zeppelin-Lindau D.I had stressed skin fuselage and wings.. In mechanical engineering, stressed skin is a rigid construction in which the skin or covering takes a portion of the structural load, intermediate between monocoque, in which the skin assumes all or most of the load, and a rigid frame, which has a non-loaded covering.

  8. Opus quadratum - Wikipedia

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    Subsequently (the "Greek way"), the blocks would be placed in one of two rotations."Stretchers" would be placed so the longer side was on the face of the wall, and "headers" would be placed so the shorter side was on the face of the wall, and would thus extend further back into the wall thickness.

  9. Double hull - Wikipedia

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    Single hull, Double bottom, and Double hull ship cross sections. Green lines are watertight; black structure is not watertight. A double hull is a ship hull design and construction method where the bottom and sides of the ship have two complete layers of watertight hull surface: one outer layer forming the normal hull of the ship, and a second inner hull which is some distance inboard ...