Title
Production of a lightweight masonry block using alkaline activated natural pozzolana and natural fibers
Date Issued
2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Lightweight geopolymers are alternative low-carbon footprint building materials with high potential to produce value added products for the construction industry such as low-density masonry units. This work focuses on presenting the development of a new lightweight masonry block using natural pozzolana-based geopolymer mortar, hydrogen peroxide as a foaming agent and jute fibers as reinforcement additive. The experimental plan allowed the optimization of the production process and the definition of the optimum quantities of hydrogen peroxide content, pozzolana: fine aggregate ratios and the appropriate amount of fibers to be incorporated. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the production of new masonry units, which can achieve up to 8.1 MPa of compressive strength after 28 days of fabrication with reduced bulk densities of 1269 kg/m3.
Volume
253
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales Ingeniería de la construcción
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85083341675
Source
Construction and Building Materials
ISSN of the container
09500618
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by CONCYTEC and SENCICO PERU under the project: “GeoBloque: Desarrollo de bloques de construcción ultraligeros con geopolímeros” (Contract No. 105-207-FONDECYT ). The authors are very grateful to Compañía Minera Agregados Calcáreos S.A (COMACSA) for providing the use of its facilities and equipment. David Castañeda and Guido Silva would like to acknowledge the support from CONCYTEC for their fellowship funding under Contract N ° 232-2015-FONDECYT and N° 10-2018-FONDECYT/BM.
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