Oil palm shell as a lightweight aggregate for production high strength lightweight concrete

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1848-1853

  Shafigh, Payam ^a   Jumaat, Mohd Zamin ^a   Mahmud, Hilmi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Agricultural solid waste; Compressive strength; Curing; High strength lightweight concrete; Oil palm shell

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOLID WASTE; AIR CONTENT; CURING CONDITION; DRY DENSITY; HIGH STRENGTH LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETES; LIGHT WEIGHT AGGREGATE; LIMESTONE POWDER; MALAYSIA; OIL PALM; PALM OIL; TEST RESULTS;

CONCRETES; CURING; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLID WASTES; VEGETABLE OILS; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER CONTENT;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

EID: 78650882920     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2010.11.075     Document Type: Article

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