Fracture and fatigue of natural fiber-reinforced cementitious composites

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 232-243

  Savastano Jr , H ^a   Santos, S F ^a   Radonjic, M ^b   Soboyejo, W O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cementitious matrices; Crack bridging; Fatigue crack growth; Natural fibers; Resistance curve behavior

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; BLAST FURNACES; BLEACHING; CEMENT MANUFACTURE; CLEANING; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; CRACK DETECTION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FURNACES; METAL REFINERIES; PORTLAND CEMENT; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SLAG CEMENT; SLAGS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

AFFORDABLE HOUSINGS; AGRICULTURAL BY-PRODUCTS; BLAST FURNACE SLAGS; BLEACHED EUCALYPTUS PULPS; CEMENTITIOUS MATRICES; CRACK-BRIDGING; CRACK-TIP SHIELDING; ECO-FRIENDLY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIORS; FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FRACTURE AND FATIGUES; FRACTURE MECHANICS MODELS; FRACTURE RESISTANCES; ORDINARY PORTLAND CEMENTS; PULPED FIBERS; R CURVES; REINFORCED CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES; RESISTANCE-CURVE BEHAVIOR; SEM; SINGLE-EDGE NOTCHED BENDS; STABLE CRACK GROWTHS;

NATURAL FIBERS;

COMPOSITES; EUCALYPTUS; FATIGUE RESISTANCE; FIBERS; FRACTURE; PORTLAND CEMENT; PULPS; REINFORCEMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SLAG;

EID: 63249103857     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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