Reuse of Waste Rice Husk Ash and Expanded Polystyrene Beads as an Alternative Raw Material in Lightweight Concrete Bricks

Nowadays, the demand for lightweight building materials has been growing worldwide. This paper presents an investigation on the use of renewable resources such as waste rice husk ash (RHA) and expanded polystyrene beads (EPS) beads as alternative raw materials for the production of lightweight concr...

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Main Authors: Ling, I.H, Teo, DCL
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spelling unimas-31182016-04-07T03:48:04Z http://ir.unimas.my/3118/ Reuse of Waste Rice Husk Ash and Expanded Polystyrene Beads as an Alternative Raw Material in Lightweight Concrete Bricks Ling, I.H Teo, DCL TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Nowadays, the demand for lightweight building materials has been growing worldwide. This paper presents an investigation on the use of renewable resources such as waste rice husk ash (RHA) and expanded polystyrene beads (EPS) beads as alternative raw materials for the production of lightweight concrete bricks. The RHA is used as partial cement replacement while waste EPS is used as partial aggregate replacement in the mixes. The key properties for the concrete bricks namely density, compressive strength, compliance for dimension and thermal conductivity were investigated. The mixes prepared were made of RHA of 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% as partial replacement for cement and with the same amounts of sand and EPS. A control concrete without any RHA replacement was also produced. The results showed that the samples with 10% RHA replacement not only gained the highest compressive strength compared to other samples but also complied with the class 2 requirement for load bearing bricks at 28days as specified in Malaysia Standard, MS76: 1972. In general, the results showed that the RHA EPS concrete brick has good potential as building material Directory of open access journals 2011 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/3118/1/Reuse%20of%20Waste%20Rice%20Husk%20Ash%20and%20Expanded%20Polystyrene%20Beads%20%28abstract0.pdf Ling, I.H and Teo, DCL (2011) Reuse of Waste Rice Husk Ash and Expanded Polystyrene Beads as an Alternative Raw Material in Lightweight Concrete Bricks. International Journal of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 2 (5). 328-332.. ISSN 2078-0737 http://www.warponline.org/viewjc.php?id=j1&page_id=23&volume_id=9&content_id=79
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Ling, I.H
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Reuse of Waste Rice Husk Ash and Expanded Polystyrene Beads as an Alternative Raw Material in Lightweight Concrete Bricks
description Nowadays, the demand for lightweight building materials has been growing worldwide. This paper presents an investigation on the use of renewable resources such as waste rice husk ash (RHA) and expanded polystyrene beads (EPS) beads as alternative raw materials for the production of lightweight concrete bricks. The RHA is used as partial cement replacement while waste EPS is used as partial aggregate replacement in the mixes. The key properties for the concrete bricks namely density, compressive strength, compliance for dimension and thermal conductivity were investigated. The mixes prepared were made of RHA of 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% as partial replacement for cement and with the same amounts of sand and EPS. A control concrete without any RHA replacement was also produced. The results showed that the samples with 10% RHA replacement not only gained the highest compressive strength compared to other samples but also complied with the class 2 requirement for load bearing bricks at 28days as specified in Malaysia Standard, MS76: 1972. In general, the results showed that the RHA EPS concrete brick has good potential as building material
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author Ling, I.H
Teo, DCL
author_facet Ling, I.H
Teo, DCL
author_sort Ling, I.H
title Reuse of Waste Rice Husk Ash and Expanded Polystyrene Beads as an Alternative Raw Material in Lightweight Concrete Bricks
title_short Reuse of Waste Rice Husk Ash and Expanded Polystyrene Beads as an Alternative Raw Material in Lightweight Concrete Bricks
title_full Reuse of Waste Rice Husk Ash and Expanded Polystyrene Beads as an Alternative Raw Material in Lightweight Concrete Bricks
title_fullStr Reuse of Waste Rice Husk Ash and Expanded Polystyrene Beads as an Alternative Raw Material in Lightweight Concrete Bricks
title_full_unstemmed Reuse of Waste Rice Husk Ash and Expanded Polystyrene Beads as an Alternative Raw Material in Lightweight Concrete Bricks
title_sort reuse of waste rice husk ash and expanded polystyrene beads as an alternative raw material in lightweight concrete bricks
publisher Directory of open access journals
publishDate 2011
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