Development of composite cement reinforced with coconut fibre

This research was conducted to develop cement composite with the addition of coconut fibre in cement panel. The raw materials used were Ordinary Portland cement, coconut fibre, sand and water. The development of cement composites in this research were done by substituting coconut fibre to the portio...

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Main Author:	Alida, Abdullah
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Subjects:	Cement composite Coconut fibre Compressive strength Crack propagation Sabut kelapa Materials engineering
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spelling	my-unimap-311572014-01-12T13:14:37Z Development of composite cement reinforced with coconut fibre Alida, Abdullah This research was conducted to develop cement composite with the addition of coconut fibre in cement panel. The raw materials used were Ordinary Portland cement, coconut fibre, sand and water. The development of cement composites in this research were done by substituting coconut fibre to the portion of sand based on the ratio of cement to sand. In this study, the ratios used to design the mixture were 1:1:0, 1:0.97:0.03, 1:0.94:0.06, 1:0.91:0.09, 1:0.87:0.12 and 1:0.84:0.15 (cement: sand: coconut fibre). The amount of water per cement ratio was fixed at 0.55 for each mixture ratio. The sizes of sample tested were, 160 mm x 40 mm x 40 mm for compression test, and 100 mm x 100 mm x 40 mm for density, moisture content and water absorption tests. The samples were cured in water for 7, 14, and 28 days. The result shows that the cement composite with 9 wt. % of coconut fibre gives highest flexural and compressive strength. It was found that by increasing the content of coconut fibre, the density of cement composite was decreased while the water absorption and the moisture content percentages were increased. This study also reports the fracture behaviour of composites after flexural test. It revealed the crack bridging had strengthened the composite. Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) 2012 Thesis en http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/dspace/handle/123456789/31157 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/31157/1/1-24.pdf dcf32ef0ff0a8f71aaf387f3f7ccddd3 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/31157/2/full%20text.pdf bd72684a9bd92e70c5ce3f4703f33ea3 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/31157/3/license.txt 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 Cement composite Coconut fibre Compressive strength Crack propagation Sabut kelapa Materials engineering School of Materials Engineering
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topic	Cement composite Coconut fibre Compressive strength Crack propagation Sabut kelapa Materials engineering
spellingShingle	Cement composite Coconut fibre Compressive strength Crack propagation Sabut kelapa Materials engineering Alida, Abdullah Development of composite cement reinforced with coconut fibre
description	This research was conducted to develop cement composite with the addition of coconut fibre in cement panel. The raw materials used were Ordinary Portland cement, coconut fibre, sand and water. The development of cement composites in this research were done by substituting coconut fibre to the portion of sand based on the ratio of cement to sand. In this study, the ratios used to design the mixture were 1:1:0, 1:0.97:0.03, 1:0.94:0.06, 1:0.91:0.09, 1:0.87:0.12 and 1:0.84:0.15 (cement: sand: coconut fibre). The amount of water per cement ratio was fixed at 0.55 for each mixture ratio. The sizes of sample tested were, 160 mm x 40 mm x 40 mm for compression test, and 100 mm x 100 mm x 40 mm for density, moisture content and water absorption tests. The samples were cured in water for 7, 14, and 28 days. The result shows that the cement composite with 9 wt. % of coconut fibre gives highest flexural and compressive strength. It was found that by increasing the content of coconut fibre, the density of cement composite was decreased while the water absorption and the moisture content percentages were increased. This study also reports the fracture behaviour of composites after flexural test. It revealed the crack bridging had strengthened the composite.
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title	Development of composite cement reinforced with coconut fibre
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granting_institution	Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
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url	http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/31157/1/1-24.pdf http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/31157/2/full%20text.pdf
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