Sustainable concepts which benefit from secondary lightweight effects will play a decisive role in future car design.
The effect of lightweight aggregate (LWA) type on the early-age autogenous shrinkage of lightweight aggregate concrete (LWAC) was investigated based on a corrugated tube testing method.
It also introduces the use and effect of lightweight Volcanic Pumice Concrete in TWC columns as compared to normal concrete.
The effect of lightweight and normal-weight coarse aggregates on the internal relative humidity (IRH) and drying shrinkage of hardening concrete was investigated experimentally.
23 out of 29 types of aggregate were lightweight, although neither bloating effect was observed, nor the typical cellular structure comprised of shell and core with relatively large pores was obtained, but a structure consisting of micropores and microchannels.
The conventional coarse aggregates in a high-strength normal weight concrete were replaced by each of these lightweight aggregates, and the effect of such substitution on the fresh and hardened properties of the concrete was studied.
Three full-scale slabs, simulating bridge decks, were tested in the Laboratory of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, to investigate the effect of lightweight fiber reinforced material on the punching shear resistance.
In this paper is summarized an experimental study that comprised quasi-static cyclic tests and shake table tests of twenty walls, conducted to provide information on the effect of lightweight and low-strength concrete on seismic performance of thin lightly-reinforced shear walls.
