• Title of article

    Quality improvement of oil palm shell (OPS) as coarse aggregate in lightweight concrete

  • Author/Authors

    M.A. Mannan، نويسنده , , J. Alexander، نويسنده , , C. Ganapathy، نويسنده , , D.C.L. Teo، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    1239
  • To page
    1242
  • Abstract
    An experimental investigation on the quality improvement of oil palm shell (OPS) as a coarse aggregate in lightweight concrete was conducted using several pre-treatment methods, and the pre-treated OPS aggregates were exposed to severe alkaline, acidic and strong sulphate solutions. Tests conducted on the OPS aggregates were water absorption and aggregate impact value, and tests conducted on OPS concrete were the slump, demoulded density and compressive strength. The PVA solution showed the best performance in quality improvement of OPS aggregate as well as OPS concrete among other pre-treatment methods.
  • Keywords
    Agricultural solid waste , Oil palm shell (OPS) , lightweight concrete , pre-treatment
  • Journal title
    Building and Environment
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Building and Environment
  • Record number

    409168