Crack pattern of the test specimen of the farmworker’s house wall construction: the earth blocks crack due to horizontal tensile forces from differential deformation and not due to excessive compression forces.

Crack pattern of the test specimen of the farmworker’s house wall construction: the earth blocks crack due to horizontal tensile forces from differential deformation and not due to excessive compression forces.

Image credit: Institut für Baustoffe und Massivbau, Universität Braunschweig