Effect of steel fiber on the mechanical properties of oil palm shell lightweight concrete

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3926-3932

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

A. Concrete; B. Steel fiber; E. Mechanical property

Indexed keywords

A. CONCRETE; ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS; B. STEEL FIBER; CURING CONDITION; E. MECHANICAL; FLEXURAL STRENGTH; LIGHT WEIGHT AGGREGATE; MODULUS OF ELASTICITY; MOIST CURING; NORMAL WEIGHT CONCRETE; OIL PALM; SPLITTING TENSILE STRENGTH; STEEL FIBERS; STRENGTH RATIOS; VOLUME CONTENT;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CURING; ELASTIC MODULI; FIBERS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 79955160730     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2011.02.055     Document Type: Article

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