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ISSN 1818-4952
IDOSI Publications, 2013
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2013.21.9.20213
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School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LY, UK
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Department of Polymers and Pigments, National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
Abstract: Concretes containing Portland cement, fly ash as the supplementary cementitious material, natural
fine aggregate and a novel lightweight material called Stabilised Polystyrene (SPS)aggregatewere investigated.
This paper presents the results of an experimental work on the effects of waste Expanded Polystyrene (EPS)
based lightweightaggregate called Stabilised Polystyrene (SPS) and fly ash in concrete. The composite
aggregate was formed with 70% waste polystyrene which was shredded to coarse and sand sizes, 10% of
anatural material to improve the resistance to segregation of EPS and 20% Portland cement. Nine different
mixtureswith water to binder ratio (W/B) of 0.8 with varying SPS content ratios of 0, 60 and 100% as partial
replacement of natural fine aggregate by equivalent volume at the fly ash replacement levels of 0, 20 and 40%
with Portland cement were prepared and tested. The properties of concrete investigated in this paper were
compressive strength and ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) at the age of 28-day. The results indicate that there
is a decrease in compressive strength and UPV with increasing amounts of SPS and fly ash in concrete.
Key words: Compressive Strength Fly Ash Stabilised Polystyrene UPV Waste Polystyrene
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V = L/T
Where:
Fig. 3: Compressive strength of concretes containing
varying amounts of SPS and FA at 28-day age Vis the pulse velocity, in km/s
Lis the path length, in mm
Tis the time taken by the pulse to transverse the
length, in s.
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needed to be done before the material could be proven International conference and workshop on the built
OK for use in construction applications. environment in developing countries. Adelaide,
Australia,
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 6. BS EN 933-1. 1997. Tests for geometrical properties of
aggregates. Part 1: Determination of particle size
The assistance from Soran University (Kurdistan- distribution - Sieving method.
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Wolverhampton civil engineerings laboratory is Slump-test.
gratefully acknowledged. 8. BS EN 12390-3. 2009. Testing hardened concrete. Part
3: Compressive strength of test specimens.
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