High strength oil palm shell concrete beams reinforced with steel fibres

Yap, Soon Poh and Alengaram, Ubagaram Johnson and Mo, Kim Hung and Jumaat, Mohd Zamin (2017) High strength oil palm shell concrete beams reinforced with steel fibres. Materiales de Construcción, 67 (328). p. 142. ISSN 0465-2746, DOI https://doi.org/10.3989/mc.2017.11616.

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Abstract

The utilization of lightweight oil palm shell to produce high strength lightweight sustainable material has led many researchers towards its commercialization as structural concrete. However, the low tensile strength of Oil Palm Shell Concrete (OPSC) has hindered its development. This study aims to enhance the mechanical properties and flexural behaviours of OPSC by the addition of steel fibres of up to 3% by volume, to produce oil palm shell fibre-reinforced concrete (OPSFRC). The experimental results showed that the steel fibres significantly enhanced the mechanical properties of OPSFRC. The highest compressive strength, splitting tensile and flexural strengths of 55, 11.0 and 18.5 MPa, respectively, were achieved in the OPSFRC mix reinforced with 3% steel fibres. In addition, the flexural beam testing on OPSFRC beams with 3% steel fibres showed that the steel fibre reinforcement up to 3% produced notable increments in the moment capacity and crack resistance of OPSFRC beams, but accompanied by reduction in the ductility.

Item Type:	Article
Funders:	University of Malaya: Bantuan Kecil Penyelidikan (BKP) titled “Development of waterproofing cement mortar using plastic filling” (Project Number: BK004-2016)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Aggregate; Concrete; Fibre-reinforcement; Flexural behaviour; Mechanical properties
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering > Department of Civil Engineering
Depositing User:	Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited:	03 Sep 2018 05:48
Last Modified:	27 Sep 2019 09:29
URI:	http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/19059

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