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Mix Design And Mechanical Properties Of Oil Palm Shell Lightweight Aggregate Concrete: A Review, Hilmi Mahmud Nov 2010

Mix Design And Mechanical Properties Of Oil Palm Shell Lightweight Aggregate Concrete: A Review, Hilmi Mahmud

Hilmi Mahmud

To build environmentally sustainable structures, especially in developing countries, the possibility of using some agricultural wastes and industrial by-products from different industries as construction materials will be highly desirable and has several practical and economic advantages. Oil palm shell (OPS) is a form of agricultural solid waste in the tropical regimes. Research over the last two decades shows that OPS can be used as a lightweight aggregate for producing structural lightweight aggregate concrete. The density of OPS concrete is around 20 - 25% lower than normal weight concrete. Generally, mechanical properties of OPS concrete are slightly lower than the other …


01june2010_Building Collapse_Begunbari, Md. Nurul Alam Jun 2010

01june2010_Building Collapse_Begunbari, Md. Nurul Alam

Md. Nurul Alam

No abstract provided.


Study On Properties Of Rice Husk Ash And Its Use As Cement Replacement Material, Hilmi Mahmud Apr 2010

Study On Properties Of Rice Husk Ash And Its Use As Cement Replacement Material, Hilmi Mahmud

Hilmi Mahmud

This paper investigates the properties of rice husk ash (RHA) produced by using a ferro-cement furnace. The effect of grinding on the particle size and the surface area was first investigated, then the XRD analysis was conducted to verify the presence of amorphous silica in the ash. Furthermore, the effect of RHA average particle size and percentage on concrete workability, fresh density, superplasticizer (SP) content and the compressive strength were also investigated. Although grinding RHA would reduce its average particle size (APS), it was not the main factor controlling the surface area and it is thus resulted from RHA's multilayered, …


Production Of High Strength Concrete Incorporating An Agricultural Waste- Rice Husk Ash, Hilmi Mahmud Jan 2010

Production Of High Strength Concrete Incorporating An Agricultural Waste- Rice Husk Ash, Hilmi Mahmud

Hilmi Mahmud

Rice husk which is an agricultural waste, constitutes about one-fifth of the 500 million tonnes of rice produced annually worldwide. Normally, the residue is disposed off by burning at the mill sites and the resultant rice husk ash (RHA) is dumped on a waste land. This generates environmental, pollution and land dereliction problems. Under controlled burning and if sufficiently ground, the highly reactive ash that is produced can be used as a supplementary cementing material or in the production of high strength concrete (HSC). This paper shows that it is relatively easy to produce high strength Grade 80 concrete incorporating …


An Innovative Concrete Practice Performance Measurement Towards Environmental Improvement In Malaysia, Hilmi Mahmud Jan 2010

An Innovative Concrete Practice Performance Measurement Towards Environmental Improvement In Malaysia, Hilmi Mahmud

Hilmi Mahmud

The environmental impact from the concrete construction industry is quite alarming. The industry is embarking into improving the concrete performance and exploring into alternative materials to reduce such impact. An area which is lacking is improvement in the quality of concrete practice itself. By having good concrete practice, a good quality concrete can be achieved. This paper proposed a performance measurement of concrete practice and applies the measurement to assess the quality of concrete practice for a concrete structure project in Malaysia. © 2010 IEEE.


Effect Of Aggregate Size And Proportion On Strength Properties Of Palm Kernel Shell Concrete, Hilmi Mahmud Jan 2010

Effect Of Aggregate Size And Proportion On Strength Properties Of Palm Kernel Shell Concrete, Hilmi Mahmud

Hilmi Mahmud

This paper presents information on the physical and mechanical properties of different sizes of palm kernel shells (PKS) used here as lightweight aggregates (LWA) and their influence on mechanical properties of palm kernel shell concrete (PKSC). Silica fume and fly ash were used as cementitious materials and all mixes had 1% superplasticizer on cement weight. It has been found that PKS consists of about 65 to 70% of medium size particles in the range of 5 to 10 mm. The other two sizes, namely, small (0-5 mm) and large (10-15 mm) sizes were found to influence the mechanical properties of …


Development Of Lightweight Concrete Using Industrial Waste Material, Palm Kernel Shell As Lightweight Aggregate And Its Properties, Hilmi Mahmud Jan 2010

Development Of Lightweight Concrete Using Industrial Waste Material, Palm Kernel Shell As Lightweight Aggregate And Its Properties, Hilmi Mahmud

Hilmi Mahmud

Agricultural industrial wastes produced after extracting palm oil from palm fruits known as palm kernel shell (PKS) are available in large quantities in Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria and other tropical countries. Malaysia is the second largest palm oil producing country in the world. This paper reports the results of an investigation conducted to utilize the PKS as lightweight aggregate to produce grade30 concrete with density of about 1850kg/m 3. The properties of both PKS and crushed granite aggregates were compared. The concrete produced using PKS referred to here after as palm kernel shell concrete (PKSC) and its properties were compared with …


Comparison Of Mechanical And Bond Properties Of Oil Palm Kernel Shell Concrete With Normal Weight Concrete, Hilmi Mahmud Jan 2010

Comparison Of Mechanical And Bond Properties Of Oil Palm Kernel Shell Concrete With Normal Weight Concrete, Hilmi Mahmud

Hilmi Mahmud

The comparison of the fresh, mechanical and bond properties of grade 30 lightweight concrete, namely oil palm kernel shell concrete (OPKSC) with normal weight concrete (NWC) of similar strength is presented in this paper. Oil palm kernel shell (OPKS), an industrial waste has been used as lightweight aggregates (LWA) in the OPKSC. In addition, mineral admixtures, 10% of silica fume and 5% fly ash have been used. The OPKSC produced a density reduction of about 20% compared to NWC. The addition of silica fume enhanced the compressive strength and thus OPKSC produced 28-day compressive strength up to 37 MPa. The …


Effect Of Aggregate Size And Proportion On Strength Properties Of Palm Kernel Shell Concrete, Zamin Jumaat Jan 2010

Effect Of Aggregate Size And Proportion On Strength Properties Of Palm Kernel Shell Concrete, Zamin Jumaat

Zamin Jumaat

This paper presents information on the physical and mechanical properties of different sizes of palm kernel shells (PKS) used here as lightweight aggregates (LWA) and their influence on mechanical properties of palm kernel shell concrete (PKSC). Silica fume and fly ash were used as cementitious materials and all mixes had 1% superplasticizer on cement weight. It has been found that PKS consists of about 65 to 70% of medium size particles in the range of 5 to 10 mm. The other two sizes, namely, small (0-5 mm) and large (10-15 mm) sizes were found to influence the mechanical properties of …


Economic Design Of Retaining Wall Using Particle Swarm Optimization With Passive Congregation, Mohammad Khajehzadeh, M R., Taha, A., El-Shafie, Mahdiyeh Eslami Jan 2010

Economic Design Of Retaining Wall Using Particle Swarm Optimization With Passive Congregation, Mohammad Khajehzadeh, M R., Taha, A., El-Shafie, Mahdiyeh Eslami

Dr. Mahdiyeh Eslami (مهدیه اسلامی)

No abstract provided.