Development of composite cement reinforced with coconut fibre

Alida Abdullah

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Development of composite cement reinforced with coconut fibre

cris.virtual.department	Universiti Malaysia Perlis
cris.virtualsource.department	d89289a6-fb6a-4a2e-9dc7-231c04b05afe
dc.contributor.author	Alida Abdullah
dc.date.accessioned	2024-07-30T08:09:35Z
dc.date.available	2024-07-30T08:09:35Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description.abstract	This research was conducted to develop cement composite with the addition of coconut fibre in cement panel. The raw materials used were Ordinary Portland cement, coconut fibre, sand and water. The development of cement composites in this research were done by substituting coconut fibre to the portion of sand based on the ratio of cement to sand. In this study, the ratios used to design the mixture were 1:1:0, 1:0.97:0.03, 1:0.94:0.06, 1:0.91:0.09, 1:0.87:0.12 and 1:0.84:0.15 (cement: sand: coconut fibre). The amount of water per cement ratio was fixed at 0.55 for each mixture ratio. The sizes of sample tested were, 160 mm x 40 mm x 40 mm for compression test, and 100 mm x 100 mm x 40 mm for density, moisture content and water absorption tests. The samples were cured in water for 7, 14, and 28 days. The result shows that the cement composite with 9 wt. % of coconut fibre gives highest flexural and compressive strength. It was found that by increasing the content of coconut fibre, the density of cement composite was decreased while the water absorption and the moisture content percentages were increased. This study also reports the fracture behaviour of composites after flexural test. It revealed the crack bridging had strengthened the composite.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14170/3383
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject	Cement composite
dc.subject	Coconut fibre
dc.subject	Compressive strength
dc.subject	Crack propagation
dc.subject	Sabut kelapa
dc.subject	Materials engineering
dc.title	Development of composite cement reinforced with coconut fibre
dc.type	Resource Types::text::thesis::master thesis
dspace.entity.type	Publication
oairecerif.author.affiliation	Universiti Malaysia Perlis