Construction and Building Materials back issues from November 2007:
Effect of bitumen wax on asphalt mixture performance.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abstract This paper mainly deals with waxes which are naturally present in bitumens, and does not include synthetic waxes that sometimes are proposed as bitumen additives. The main objectives were to study the rheological effect of bitumen waxes and the impact of waxy bitumens ...
Compressive strength characteristics of cement stabilized rammed earth walls.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abstract In order to minimize the environmental impacts caused by over exploitation of natural resources for the production of building material, the possibility of using cement stabilized rammed earth for load-bearing walls has been assessed. Since the vertical load carrying ...
Defects of non-loadbearing masonry walls due to partial basal supports.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abstract The attempts to reduce heat transmission heterogeneity all over the external surface of building envelopes include several recommendations about external protection of concrete structures with thin clay brick walls. This procedure was extensively adopted in Portugal ...
Experimental investigation of load carrying capacity of the slender reinforced concrete columns wrapped with FRP.(fiber reinforced polymer)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abstract Axial compression test was conducted on 6 elliptical modified rectangular slender reinforced concrete columns wrapped with FRP, with a slenderness ratio L/b ranging between 4.5 and 17.5. The test result showed that the effect of the slenderness ratio on the load ...
The problem of shear in RC beams strengthened with CFRP laminates.(Reinforced Concrete)(Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abstract The effectiveness of externally bonded reinforcement of a strengthened Reinforced Concrete (RC) beam subjected to a shear-dominant loading regime is not well-established. The aim of this paper is to clarify the structural performance of RC beams without any internal ...
Red ceramic industrial products incorporated with oily wastes.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abstract An industrial scale investigation into the effects of oily wastes incorporated into different red ceramic products for building construction was carried out for the first time. The oily wastes were a crude sludge derived from petroleum separation process and its inert ...
Durability of cementing binders based on fly ash and other wastes.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abstract The paper deals with the cementitious binders produced by blending 60-70% fly ash with fluorogypsum, hydrated lime sludge, with and without Portland cement and chemical activator in different proportions. Data show that strength development of cementitious binders takes ...
Study on early-age cracking of cement-based materials with superplasticizers.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abstract The addition of superplasticizers is an important approach to prepare high performance cement-based materials. The effect of polynaphthalene series superplasticizer (PNS) and polycarboxylate type superplasticizer (PC) on early-age cracking and volume stability of ...