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Advances in Civil Engineering, 2023 Nowadays, research on environmentally friendly materials has become a significant challenge in the field of civil engineering. In this study, stabilized compressed earth bricks (CEBs) incorporating recycled expanded polystyrene (EPS) beads were studied ...
Géraldine Gouafo Kougoum +4 more
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Thermal Performance Study of a Cement-Based Mortar Incorporating EPS Beads
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 Recycling plastic waste has been one of the most significant challenges in the recent decade. The reuse of one of the most produced cellular plastics (i.e.
Othmane Horma +8 more
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Lightweight mortars containing expanded polystyrene and paper sludge ash [PDF]
, 2014 The objective of this research was to develop lightweight cement mortars with good thermal-insulation properties by incorporating expanded polystyrene (EPS) and paper sludge ash (PSA), both of which are problematic waste materials. The mortars formed had
Bond, Thomas +3 more
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Thermal Analysis of Concrete Mixtures with Recycled EPS Aggregates [PDF]
, 2022 Reusing recycled waste materials in buildings is gaining more and moreattention for what it offers economic, environmental, and energy benefits;and many researchers are nowadays working on producing new sustainableconstruction materials incorporating ...
Antczak, Emmanuel +5 more
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Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2023 This work presents an experimental and theoretical study on the punching shear behavior of Lightweight Concrete Slabs. Lightweight obtained using Expanded polystyrene (EPS) beads as partial coarse aggregate’s replacement, without adding supplementary ...
Faris Rashied Ahmed
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Buildings, 2023 Limited investigations have evaluated the effect of expanded polystyrene (EPS) beads on the structural lightweight concrete properties. EPS offers many features compared to natural or artificial lightweight aggregates including the elimination of ...
Maria Ghannoum +2 more
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ARO-The Scientific Journal of Koya University, 2020 At present, most of the generated waste expanded polystyrene (EPS) in developed countries are transported to landfill and in some developing and/or less-developed countries such as Iraq are sent to open landscapes; consequently, this inadequate waste ...
Mohammad H. Jannaty, Dawood Atrushi
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Development and Mechanical Testing of Porous-Lightweight Geopolymer Mortar
Buildings, 2020 In this study, a novel porous geopolymer mortar (GP) was produced and tested experimentally. Industrial waste materials/by-products were used as constituents of the GP, along with dune sand.
Ghulam Qadir +5 more
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Development and characterization of epoxy syntactic foam filled with epoxy hollow spheres
eXPRESS Polymer Letters, 2011 The present study focuses on the development and characterization of epoxy syntactic foam filled with epoxy hollow spheres (ESF/EHoS). The epoxy syntactic foam (ESF) was produced by embedding epoxy hollow spheres (EHoS) into a mixture of epoxy-hardener ...
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Engineering, 2022 To develop an efficient way to overcome the contradiction among flame retardancy, smoke suppression, and thermal insulation in expanded polystyrene (EPS) foams, which are widely used insulation materials in buildings, a novel “green” porous bio-based ...
Meng-En Li +6 more
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