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T. Bernard, A. Korjenic:
"Strawfibre Walls With Natural Clay-Lime Plasters As A Durable Buildings Tecnology";
Talk: Vienna young Scientists Symposium 2015, Wien; 2015-06-25 - 2015-06-26; in: "Vienna young Scientists Symposium 2015", Published by Book-of-Abstracts.com, (2015), ISBN: 978-3-9504017-0-7; 172 - 173.

Straw bale construction is a new discovered building technology, which is an alternative to conventional construction technologies. In ecological regard, however, is this building method far superior to conventional constructions technology mainly because of this most widely used clay plaster technology. According to current knowledge, the sole application of clay plaster as external plaster should be considered as critical because of insufficient resistance against climatically demands especially rain. An additional lime plaster layer on the outside could eliminate the existing problem.
The aim of the proposed research is to determine the factors influencing the performance of clay-plastered straw bales in the application of an additional lime plaster layer on the outside. The scientifically proven information concerning this topic is still
missing. According to the current state of the art very positive results regarding building physics performance and durability could be expected of the clay-lime plaster layer.
For this purpose a testing house of straw bales with different component structures and different plaster was built. A total of 16 wall assemblies were tested for their hygrothermal behavior. In each wall and the plaster system, the humidity and temperature sensors were installed and the parameters were measured continuously. In addition to the hygro-thermal behavior, especially the adhesive strength between the two plaster layers should be investigated, as clay and limestone do not react chemically
with each other.