Mohammad, Abdul Mannan and Teo, Delsye Ching Lee and Kurian, V. J. (2006) Structural Concrete Using Oil Palm Shell (OPS) as Lightweight Aggregate. Turkish Journal of Engineering and Environmental Sciences, 30 (4). pp. 251-257. ISSN 1303-6157
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Abstract
This paper presents part of the experimental results of an on-going research project to produce structural lightweight concrete using solid waste, oil palm shell (OPS), as a coarse aggregate. Reported in the paper are the compressive strength, bond strength, modulus of elasticity, and flexural behaviour of OPS concrete. It was found that although OPS concrete has a low modulus of elasticity, full-scale beam tests revealed that deflection under the design service loads is acceptable as the span-deflection ratios ranged between 252 and 263, which are within the allowable limit provided by BS 8110. Laboratory investigations show encouraging results and it can be summarised that OPS has good potential as a coarse aggregate for the production of structural lightweight concrete, especially for low-cost housing construction and also for use in earthquake prone areas.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Low-cost housing, Solid waste, Lightweight concrete, Stress-strain curve, Prototype beam test, unimas, university, universiti, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, Kuching, Samarahan, ipta, education, research, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Divisions: | Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Engineering Faculties, Institutes, Centres > Faculty of Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Gani |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2020 06:46 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2020 06:46 |
| URI: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/32791 |
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