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Geopolymer Based Fiber Reinforced Composites

A special issue of Fibers (ISSN 2079-6439).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2018) | Viewed by 20849

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Faiz Shaikh

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Department of Civil Engineering, Curtin University, Perth 6845, Australia
Interests: application of nanotechnology and nanomaterials in low carbon concrete technology; mechanical and durability characterization of concrete containing recycled aggregates, recycled tyres and PET, polymers and other industrial by-products; development of Engineered Geopolymer Composites (EGC); fiber-reinforced cement and alkali-activated composites; durability of reinforced concrete (RC), ECC and EGC; behavior of geopolymer and EGC in fire

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Geopolymer has emerged as a sustainable alternative to conventional ordinary Portland cement (OPC) binder in construction. Geopolymer binder exhibited superior mechanical, durability and fire resistance properties and significantly lower carbon footprint that its OPC binder. To improve the brittleness of geopolymer various types of both short and continuous fiber are added to increase the tensile and flexural strength, ductility, toughness and energy absorption capacities of fiber reinforced geopolymer composites. This special issue will present original research articles on the fiber reinforced geopolymer composites as well as review article on this emerging topic. Researchers currently working on fiber reinforced geopolymer composites around the world are invited to showcase their research by submitting their original or review article in this special issue of journal of “Fibers”.

Prof. Dr. Faiz Shaikh
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Keywords

  • Geopolymer
  • Alkali activated slag
  • Natural fiber
  • Metallic fiber
  • Polymeric fiber
  • Continuous fiber
  • Fabric

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Indirect Tensile Behaviour of Fibre Reinforced Alkali-Activated Composites
by Filipe Almeida, Vítor M. C. F. Cunha, Tiago Miranda and Nuno Cristelo
Fibers 2018, 6(2), 30; https://doi.org/10.3390/fib6020030 - 14 May 2018
Cited by 13 | Viewed by 4630
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There are currently still some sustainability-related issues that need to be tackled within the construction sector. Namely, cement production is accountable for nearby 5% of the worldwide total CO2-eq release. Therefore, environmentally viable and economically sustainable solutions need to be pursued [...] Read more.
There are currently still some sustainability-related issues that need to be tackled within the construction sector. Namely, cement production is accountable for nearby 5% of the worldwide total CO2-eq release. Therefore, environmentally viable and economically sustainable solutions need to be pursued in order to mitigate the use of Portland cement. The incorporation of industrial waste in concrete compositions, such as fly ash (from coal combustion in power stations) is a feasible alternative. The properties of these residues may be enhanced through alkaline activation, which is able to yield aluminosilicate-based materials with excellent physico-chemical properties. Nonetheless, these materials exhibit a brittle behaviour. Therefore, the present work addresses the study of alkali-activated composites reinforced with sisal fibres. For that purpose, alkali-activated Class F fly ash was mixed with natural fibres and the composite mechanical behaviour was assessed through both indirect tensile and compressive tests. Four different fibre contents, in wt % of fly ash (0, 0.2, 0.6 and 1%), two fibre lengths (13 and 50 mm) and four curing periods (14, 28, 56 and 112 days) were considered. Results confirm that the post-cracking response of these composites was improved with the inclusion of sisal fibres. In general, higher residual tensile strengths and dissipated energy were observed for the lengthier fibres, i.e., 50 mm. Full article
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Flexural Behavior of Hybrid PVA Fiber and AR-Glass Textile Reinforced Geopolymer Composites
by Faiz Uddin Ahmed Shaikh and Aditya Patel
Fibers 2018, 6(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/fib6010002 - 1 Jan 2018
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Textile reinforced mortar or concrete, a thin cementitious composite reinforced by non-corrosive polymer textile fabric, was developed and has been researched for its role on repair and strengthening of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Due to embedment of polymeric textile fabric inside the cementitious [...] Read more.
Textile reinforced mortar or concrete, a thin cementitious composite reinforced by non-corrosive polymer textile fabric, was developed and has been researched for its role on repair and strengthening of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Due to embedment of polymeric textile fabric inside the cementitious matrix, many researchers argued the superiority of this technology than the externally bonded fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) sheet in RC in terms of prevention of debonding of FRP and durability in fire. However, due to use of cement rich matrix the existing development of textile reinforced concrete (TRC) need to be more environmental friendly by replacing cement based binder with geopolymeric binder. This paper presents a first study on the flexural behavior of alkali resistant glass fiber textile reinforced geopolymer (TRG). In this study, two types of geopolymer binder is considered. One is fly ash based heat cured geopolymer and the other is fly ash/slag blended ambient air cured geopolymer binder. Both geopolymer types are considered in the TRG and the results are benchmarked with the current cement based TRC. The effect of short polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber as hybrid reinforced with alkali-resistant (AR) glass fiber textile on the flexural behavior of above TRC and TRGs is also studied. Results show deflection hardening behavior of both TRGs with higher flexural strength in heat cured TRG and higher deflection capacity at peak load in ambient air cured TRG. The increase in PVA fiber volume fraction from 1% to 1.5% did not show any improvement in flexural strength of both TRGs although TRC showed good improvement. In the case of deflection at peak load, an opposite phenomenon is observed where the deflection at peak load in both TRGs is increased due to increase in PVA fiber volume fractions. Full article
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Enhancement Experiment on Cementitious Activity of Copper-Mine Tailings in a Geopolymer System
by Lin Yu, Zhen Zhang, Xiao Huang, Binquan Jiao and Dongwei Li
Fibers 2017, 5(4), 47; https://doi.org/10.3390/fib5040047 - 15 Dec 2017
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Copper-mine tailings are the residual products after the extraction of precious copper metal from copper ores, and their storage can create numerous environmental problems. Many researchers have used copper-mine tailings for the preparation of geopolymers. This paper studies the enhancement of the cementitious [...] Read more.
Copper-mine tailings are the residual products after the extraction of precious copper metal from copper ores, and their storage can create numerous environmental problems. Many researchers have used copper-mine tailings for the preparation of geopolymers. This paper studies the enhancement of the cementitious activity of copper-mine tailings in geopolymer systems. First, copper-mine tailings are activated through mechanical grinding activation. Then, the mechanically activated copper-mine tailings are further processed through thermal activation and alkaline-roasting activation. The cementitious activity index of copper-mine tailings is characterized through the degree of leaching concentration of Si and Al. It was observed that the Si and Al leaching concentration of mechanically activated tailings was increased by 26.03% and 93.33%, respectively. The concentration of Si and Al was increased by 54.19% and 119.92%, respectively. For alkaline-roasting activation, roasting time, temperature and the mass ratio of copper-mine tailings to NaOH (C/N ratio) were evaluated through orthogonal tests, and the best condition for activation was 120 min at 600 °C with a C/N ratio of 5:1. In this study, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and infra-red (IR) analysis show that mechanical, thermal and alkaline-roasting activation could be used to improve the cementitious activity index of copper-mine tailings. Full article
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