Impact strength of a few natural fibre reinforced cement mortar slabs: a comparative study

By G. Ramakrishna, T. Sundararajan. 2005

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Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Polymers and Plastics

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Mechanical and dynamic properties of coconut fibre reinforced concrete (2012, background): “Ramakrishna and Sundararajan [31] investigated the variation in chemical composition and tensile strength of four natural fibres, i.”
An overview on the influence of various factors on the properties of geopolymer concrete derived from industrial by-products (2015, background): “However, the use of natural fibers to reinforce geopolymers are gaining wide interest due to its environmental friendly and cost efficient characteristics [80].”
Utilization of sweet sorghum fiber to reinforce fly ash-based geopolymer (2014, background): “So far researchers have studied sisal [25, 26], cotton stalk [27], coconut [28], bamboo [29], jute [27, 30], banana [25, 28, 31], and hemp fibers [32, 33], just list a few, to reinforce cementitious materials and very promising results have been obtained.”
Cementitious building materials reinforced with vegetable fibres : a review (2011, background): “Other authors [37] reported that fibre inclusion increases impact resistance 3–18 times higher than when no fibres were used.”
Fracture and impact properties of short discrete jute fibre-reinforced cementitious composites (2013, background): “Ramakrishn a and Sundararaja n [7] tested sisal, coir, jute and hibiscus cannebinus (kenaf) fibres reinforced cement mortars with different fibre lengths and fibre dosages.”
Physical and mechanical properties of durable sisal fiber–cement composites (2010, methodology): “Usually vegetable fibers have been used as reinforcement of cementitious matrices in the form pulp or short filament fibers [1–7].”