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Tao Wang, Weiwei Ye, Liyuan Liu, Aiguo Li, Naisheng Jiang, Le Zhang and Sitao Zhu
To investigate the impact of crack inclination angle on the tensile strength and characteristics of splitting failure in rock, split tests were conducted on fine-grained sandstone with pre-existing cracks under different crack inclination angle condition...
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Tarikul Islam, Md. Safiuddin, Rezwan Ahmed Roman, Bodhijit Chakma and Abdullah Al Maroof
This paper presents the key mechanical properties of PVC fiber-reinforced concrete. Six concrete mixtures were produced using plastic fibers obtained from clear PVC sheets. Three concrete mixtures were made using 20 mm long PVC fibers, whereas the other ...
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Md Azree Othuman Mydin, Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri Abdullah, Rafiza Abdul Razak, Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi, Puput Risdanareni, Poppy Puspitasari, Andrei Victor Sandu, Madalina Simona Baltatu and Petrica Vizureanu
Recent industrial developments have focused more and more on the applications of lightweight foamed concrete (LFC) in the construction industry, having advantages over normal-strength concrete. LFC, however, has several drawbacks including brittleness, h...
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Thamer Alomayri, Babar Ali, Syed Safdar Raza, Hawreen Ahmed and Moustafa Hamad
Seawater mixed (SW) concrete lessens the freshwater (FW) demand and eases the stress on the already depleting FW resources. The use of SW concrete is a sustainable solution that mitigates the environmental impact of concrete production, especially in coa...
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Jie Xiao, Yikang Murong, Xiyuan Chen, Lingfei Liu, Keyi Zhai, Haibo Jiang, Linhai Huang and Guodong Wang
In recent years, replacing steel bars with basalt fiber-reinforced polymer (BFRP) bars and replacing ordinary concrete with reactive powder concrete (RPC) are considered effective solutions to the corrosion problem of steel bars in ordinary reinforced co...
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Mohammed Qusay Abdul Sahib, Masood Farzam and Khalid A. Sukkar
Ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) and high-performance concrete (HPC) are widely used in construction engineering applications. The quality and economy of this type of concrete are the main challenges in real construction systems due to their expens...
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Guohui Zhang, Xinlan Ni, Xiong Wei, Zhendong Yang and Yanshuang Gu
Saturated concrete is significantly different from dry concrete in fracture mechanical properties. Using the wedge-splitting tensile method to research the rule of change in moisture content, double-K fracture toughness and fracture energy of three stren...
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Grzegorz Ludwik Golewski
This work presents a discussion of the basic properties of broken mineral limestone aggregates with the specification of the properties affecting the fracture toughness of concretes made with these aggregates. To determine the influence of the grain-size...
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Mo Liu, Wenting Dai, Chunling Zhong and Xue Yang
In order to promote the wide application of reactive powder concrete (RPC) in practical engineering. In this paper, RPC was prepared using conventional and economical natural river sand instead of quartz sand and economical and environmentally friendly b...
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Herda Yati Binti Katman, Wong Jee Khai, Naraindas Bheel, Mehmet Serkan Kirgiz, Aneel Kumar and Omrane Benjeddou
Nowadays, the incorporation of natural fiber, such as coir fiber, to high-strength concrete has sparked a lot of attention in the construction materials industry. This is because coir fibers are significantly cheaper and more widely accessible than synth...
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