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Development of cement composite reinforced with coconut fibre and expanded polystyrene beads

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Main Author: Mohamad Irwan Shah, Mohd Bakri
Format: Learning Object
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) 2015
Subjects:
Polystyrene
Coconut fibre
Cement composites
Fibre reinforced concrete
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/39167
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spelling my.unimap-391672015-03-11T08:00:31Z Development of cement composite reinforced with coconut fibre and expanded polystyrene beads Mohamad Irwan Shah, Mohd Bakri Polystyrene Coconut fibre Cement composites Fibre reinforced concrete Access is limited to UniMAP community. In this research, polystyrene and coconut fibre was introduced into the concrete to form fibre reinforced concrete, where the polystyrene plays an important role to reduce the weight of the concrete while the coconut fibre provide additional reinforcement to enhances the properties of the concrete. In this project the properties of the polystyrene and coconut fibre reinforced concrete were studied. Different proportion of polystyrene and coconut fibre was design to know the optimum proportion and to study the effect of the raw material to the mechanical and physical properties of the concrete. Coconut fruit are light, buoyant and highly water resistant, and evolved to disperse significant distances via marine currents while, polystyrene is made from petroleum, non-sustainable and non-renewable. Coconut fibre is extracted from coconut husk which is the unwanted part from the coconut itself after has been peel off. Different proportion of raw material was introduced into the concrete to determine the optimum proportions. Several tests like density water absorption and compressive strength test was done to study the effects of coconut fibre and polystyrene. Meanwhile, optical microscope is used to observe the structure of the concrete. From the table of result at 28 days, the best sample is sample C that is with density 1.72kg/m3 and compression strength is 10.06 MPa. This is achieved when polystyrene is introduced, the density is reduced and with the coconut fibre that give reinforcement to the concrete that gives strength. 2015-03-11T08:00:31Z 2015-03-11T08:00:31Z 2013-06 Learning Object http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/39167 en Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) School of Environmental Engineering
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topic Polystyrene
Coconut fibre
Cement composites
Fibre reinforced concrete
spellingShingle Polystyrene
Coconut fibre
Cement composites
Fibre reinforced concrete
Mohamad Irwan Shah, Mohd Bakri
Development of cement composite reinforced with coconut fibre and expanded polystyrene beads
description Access is limited to UniMAP community.
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author Mohamad Irwan Shah, Mohd Bakri
author_facet Mohamad Irwan Shah, Mohd Bakri
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title Development of cement composite reinforced with coconut fibre and expanded polystyrene beads
title_short Development of cement composite reinforced with coconut fibre and expanded polystyrene beads
title_full Development of cement composite reinforced with coconut fibre and expanded polystyrene beads
title_fullStr Development of cement composite reinforced with coconut fibre and expanded polystyrene beads
title_full_unstemmed Development of cement composite reinforced with coconut fibre and expanded polystyrene beads
title_sort development of cement composite reinforced with coconut fibre and expanded polystyrene beads
publisher Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
publishDate 2015
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/39167
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