Lightweight concrete made from oil palm shell (OPS): Structural bond and durability properties

By D. Teo, M. Mannan, V. Kurian, C. Ganapathy. 2007

228 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Civil and Structural Engineering

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In Building and Construction

1. U. Alengaram
2. Kim Hung Mo
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In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. Mohd Zamin Jumaat
2. U. Alengaram
3. Kim Hung Mo
4. B. A. A. Muhit
5. S. P. Yap
6. C. Bu
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8. P. Shafigh

Citations in the corpus

• Flexural toughness characteristics of steel–polypropylene hybrid fibre-reinforced oil palm shell concrete (2014, background): “6 MPa [6,7,9].”
• Impact resistance of hybrid fibre-reinforced oil palm shell concrete (2014, background): “LWC can be produced using oil palm shell (OPS) as lightweight coarse aggregates [3–6].”
• Mechanical and bond properties of coconut shell concrete (2011, unknown): “[25].”
• Utilization of oil palm kernel shell as lightweight aggregate in concrete - a review (2013, methodology): “Sustainability issues combined with higher ductility and aggregate interlock characteristics of OPKSC compared to NCW has resulted in many researchers conducting further investigation on the use of OPKS as LWA.”
• Flexural Behaviour of Reinforced Lightweight Concrete Beams Made with Oil Palm Shell (OPS) (2006, background): “…water, it was found that OPS concrete have water absorption and water permeability of about 11% and 6.4 x 10-10 cm/s respectively at an age of 28 day (Teo et al. 2006), which is comparable to other lightweight concretes such as those made from pumice aggregates (Güdüz and Uğur 2005; Hossain 2004).”
• Lightweight concrete made from crushed oil palm shell: tensile strength and effect of initial curing on compressive strength. (2012, unknown): “64% respectively [23].”