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Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2023 The quality and performance of concrete depends on the material used. Lightweight concrete is usually formed from aggregates with lightweight specific gravity, such as pumice.
Muhtar
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Journal of King Saud University: Engineering Sciences, 2021 The utilization of minimum natural materials content in the production of concrete represents the main concern of many researchers. In addition, lightweight aggregate concrete is desired for its low weight and modified physical properties.
Ahmed Tareq Noaman +2 more
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Lightweight aggregate concrete produced with crushed stone sand as fine aggregate
Cogent Engineering, 2020 Lightweight aggregate concrete mixtures incorporating 0, 10, 20, and 30 weight percent replacement of normal-weight aggregate with lightweight aggregate and crushed stone as fine aggregate were tested at 7, 28, 56, and 90 days for various strength and ...
Roz-Ud-Din Nassar +4 more
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Properties of Artificial Lightweight Aggregates from Various Pozzolan Materials – A Review [PDF]
Archives of Metallurgy and MaterialsThe use of lightweight aggregate can bring advantages to the construction field. Lightweight aggregate has been used due to its lower density and can reduce the dead load applied to the structural elements. Due to the number of natural resources, such as
D.L. Chuan Hao +4 more
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Effect of Coarse Aggregate Sizes and Replacement Levels on the Strength of Palm Kernel Shell (PKS) Concrete [PDF]
, 2013 The maximum coarse aggregate size used in concrete can impact on its strength. An investigation of the effect of coarse aggregate size and replacement level of granite with palm kernel shell (PKS) on the compressive and tensile strengths of PKS concrete ...
Babafemi, A. J, Olusola, K. O
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Open Engineering, 2022 This work intends to make structural lightweight aggregate concrete by using artificial expanded clay aggregate with different replacement levels from normal coarse aggregate and improve it with a high-performance superplasticizer to increase its ...
Al-Dikheeli Mohammed Riyadh +2 more
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A REVIEW OF THE EFFECT OF ADDITIVES ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE
Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development, 2023 Many organizations around the world have recognized lightweight, long-lasting, cost and environmentally-friendly construction materials as a future necessity.
Raed K. Mohammed Jawad +2 more
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Efeito da pré-molhagem do agregado nas propriedades das argamassas com agregado reciclado deconcreto e agregado leve [PDF]
, 2019 This paper examines the suitability of partially replacing natural aggregate, sand, (NA) with recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) or lightweight aggregate (LWA) in mortars, under the hypothesis that pre-wetting aggregates would produce improvement in ...
Aponte Hernández, Diego Fernando +3 more
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High strength lightweight aggregate concrete using blended coarse lightweight aggregate origin from palm oil industry [PDF]
, 2017 The benefits of using structural lightweight concrete in construction industry, particularly in high rise buildings, over normal weight concrete are numerous.
Mohd Zamin Jumaat, +2 more
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Materiales de Construccion, 2002 The study of Structural Lightweight Concrete (SLC), which is a material generally composed of cement, water and lightweight aggregate, has been mainly focused on developing particular cases. Then, the main objective of this research was to generalise the
C. Videla, M. López
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