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    Applications of waste material in the pervious concrete pavement: A review
    Pervious concrete pavement is one of the innovative structures designed in order to manage the quantity and quality of urban stormwater for a sustainable development. In general, pervious concrete pavement enables water to permeate through its structure and have a capability to cater dynamic loads at the same time. However, the conventional pervious concrete pavement lacks a superior strength while performing as pavement structure. Thus, an extensive research has been carried out in order to explore the possible materials to be incorporated into the pervious concrete pavement for better physical, structural and mechanical properties. The objectives of this paper are to review the waste materials used in the pervious concrete pavement along with their mechanical, durability and permeability performance.
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    Physical behaviours of maximum loading and cracking for slurry infiltrated fibre reinforced concrete
    Concrete prisms are being test with flexural testing by different percentage volume of steel fibres. The total number of 24 prisms were made which contain 3 %, 6 % and 9 % of steel fibres respectively. This only consist experimental results. Specimens used in this study using a prism mold of 100 mm x 100 mm x 500 mm. Eighteen prisms will be added with a layer of 10 mm of steel fibre using slurry method. All of the samples were tested using flexural testing to determine the maximum loading. The highlight scope of this research is to evaluate the physical behavior of Slurry Infiltrated Fibre Reinforced Concrete in term of maximum load and cracking pattern. The results of the study were also compared with concrete without steel fibres. However, the workability of the concrete decreased as the number of steels fibre increase. The maximum load was obtained by the lowest percentage of steel fibre (3%).
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    A practical guide of thesis writing for engineering students
    (Penerbit UniMAP (UniMAP Press), 2022)
    This book is an essential guide to thesis writing for university students. Written by the people who supervise your thesis, it will show you step-by-step to choose an engineering topic for the thesis that can be explored and turned into a thesis. This book will guide you through all the stages, including developing research strategies, writing with distinction, completing strongly with editing, and getting your referencing right every time. Emphasizing insider tips on what examiners look for, this straightforward and easy-to-use guide includes: The important principle for a good thesis (Yes, there is a principle!) Effective time management approach so you never submit the thesis late Putting the results into a convincing format and dealing with issues that inevitably arise Guidelines for getting your academic English right every time Avoiding common missteps, how to fix them, and improving the level of writing This book is the result of many years of teaching and supervising students. It is a must-read for anyone writing a thesis, or anyone who supervises these students.
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    A review of nanoclay applications in the pervious concrete pavement
    In recent years, the use of nanoclay has received various interests in order to enhance the properties of construction materials which can also be eligible for pavement technology and engineering application. This review paper summarizes the effect of nanoclay as cement replacement and additive to the performance of pervious concrete pavement. The addition of nanoclay to pervious concrete has demonstrated improvements in strength properties such as compressive and flexural strength, durability such as freeze-thaw and chloride penetration resistance, shrinkage, and denser microstructure but at the same time reduced the porosity, permeability and water absorption properties. This enhancement is due to the roles of nanoclay as nanoreinforcements, nanofillers, nucleation site, and reactive pozzolans in order to promote hydration and improve material properties.
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    Physical properties of Dolomite fines as partially replacement of cement
    Since the cost of cement increases and the pollution to environment due to greenhouse effect are becoming more serious year by year, thus, dolomite fines subjected to replace the cement in concrete mix as it has lower cost compared to cement and it is obtain directly from the Earth ground without any manufactured process. Dolomite fines also shows almost similar physical and chemical properties as cement. The various replacement of cement with dolomite fines carried out in this study is 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 25%. The grade of concrete sample designed to be 30. The properties of concrete sample in terms of physical characteristics; slump, density and water absorption for various percentage replacement are determined in this study. In this study, it shows the dolomite fines are lightweight aggregate compared to the cement and the water absorption of is lower compare to that of the control concrete.
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    Relationship between Density and Early Compressive Strength of Slurry Infiltrated Fiber Reinforced Concrete (SIFCON)
    ( 2021-12-14) ;
    Jonq L.J.
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    Shahidan S.
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    Ahmad A.N.A.
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    Wahab R.A.
    The aim of the study is to study the physical and mechanical characteristics of Slurry Infiltrated Fiber Reinforced Concrete with fiber percentage volume of 5% and lower. For the testing of physical characteristics of the concrete, density test been conducted. For the testing of mechanical characteristics, compression test used to determine strength of concrete sample. The density of Slurry Infiltrated Fiber Reinforced Concrete increased when the usage of steel fiber percentage volume increases from 1% to 5%, nevertheless when compared to density of ordinary concrete, ordinary concrete is denser. For the significant of study, the mechanical properties of Slurry Infiltrated Fiber Reinforced Concrete, compressive strength increased when the fiber content increases from 1% to 5% percentage volume.
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    Manufacturing of cast in situ ultra high performance fibre reinforced concrete (uhpfrc)-Workability, Tensile and Compressive Strength
    ( 2020-03-18) ;
    Abu Bakar B.H.
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    Mohamed Nazri F.
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    Abdul Razak R.
    The aim of this article is to share on the manufacturing process of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) without heat curing or steam curing, hence, it makes UHPFRC possible to be used for in situ application. The common materials used in numerous previous studies were used in this work to produce UHPFRC: Cement type CEM I, fine sand, silica fume, water and third generation high range water reducer. Three tests were conducted, i.e. Compression test and slump flow test and tensile test. The targeted slump flow is in the range of 600 mm to 750 mm, minimum targeted compressive strength and tensile strength test is 115 MPa and 10 MPa, respectively. In addition, the UHPFRC must exhibit strain hardening properties. As a result, this study proposes the mix proportion of the above mentioned material used to produce UHPFRC which is suitable to be utilized for in situ application.
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    The Behavior of Non-Destructive Test for Different Grade of Concrete
    ( 2020-12-28) ; ;
    Onn L.C.
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    Saiful Bahari N.A.A.
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    Rahman N.A.
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    Rebound hammer tests are generally preferred as a non-destructive testing method as compared to destructive testing methods such as compression tests. In this study, a general series of rebound hammer tests and destructive tests were carried on in a heavy concrete laboratory. A set of concrete cubes measuring 100 x 100 x 100 mm were cast and subjected to water curing for 7, 14 and 28 days to obtain the cube strength and rebound number. Three grades of concrete, namely M20, M25 and M30 were used in this experiment. At 28 days, the minimum target strength should be 30 MPa. The rebound hammer tests were conducted before the compression tests. The data obtained for each test was evaluated and tabulated in the findings of this study. It was found that the variation between predicted strength and experimental strength for the rebound hammer test was 0.18%. This indicates that the rebound hammer test is able to predict strength with acceptable accuracy.
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    Influence of activated sewage sludge, parcel packaging plastic and face mask on hydraulic properties as landfill barrier
    ( 2024-03-07)
    Alias S.
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    Zaidi N.N.K.
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    Suhaini S.N.S.
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    Khairudin M.B.S.M.
    This study aims to investigate the hydraulic properties of activated sewage sludge (ASS), parcel packaging plastic (PPP) and face mask waste (FM) as an alternative to the landfill barrier. The performance of ASS alone or mixed with plastic waste as a landfill liner or landfill cover is investigated by analysing the falling head test. The experiment showed that ASS alone gains the lowest permeability (¬ 2 x 10-5 cm/s), followed by the mixture of ASS:PPP and ASS:FM. The chemical characterization of ASS supports the finding on the hydraulic properties performance of ASS, which had almost similar properties to the clay liner, a conventional landfill barrier material. The experiment proves that the proposed materials are unable to meet the properties of the bottom liner, however, it can instead be used as the daily cover or final cover material of solid waste at landfill. The use of waste material can help manage the waste, thus reducing the environmental burden of this waste.
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    Relationship between Ultrasonic-Pulse Velocity and Compression Test for Different Grade of Concrete
    ( 2020-07-09) ;
    Choon Onn L.
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    Nur Aizat Ahmad A.
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    Shahidan S.
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    Salwa Mohd Zuki S.
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    Ultrasonic pulse velocity methods is one of the non-destructive testing methods. Commonly the compression test was used to determine the compression strength of concrete. Laboratory works had been carried out at heavy concrete laboratory to obtain the result for both non-destructive and destructive test. By using concrete cubes of sizes 100 x 100 x 100 mm and subjected to water curing for 7, 14, 21 and 28 days to obtained desire result for Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity and Compression test. Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity were initially done before the Compression test. The data obtained from each test has been evaluated and tabulated in this report. From this research, the variation between predicted strength and experimental strength for Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity testing was identified; the higher the pulse velocity, the higher the predicted strength and lower times passes by pulse velocity, the higher the predicted strength.
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