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This study is an effort to reduce drying shrinkage of oil palm shell lightweight concrete.
Partial replacement of oil palm shell with oil-palm-boiler clinker in oil palm shell lightweight concrete could significantly improve (about 40%) the compressive strength of the concrete.
The shear behaviour and mechanical properties (compressive, splitting tensile and flexural strengths) as well as the flexural toughness of steel fibre-reinforced cement-based and geopolymer oil palm shell lightweight aggregate concrete (OPS LWAC) were experimentally investigated in this paper.
Data also show that initial hot water curing significantly improve the compressive strength of oil palm shell lightweight concrete containing high volume GGBFS at early age while this curing method is not useful for oil palm shell concrete containing just ordinary Portland cement.
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A total of 32 mixes using different mixture proportions were prepared to get an appropriate mix design for fly ash based oil palm shell geopolymer lightweight concrete (OPSGPC).
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Lightweight aggregate concrete with high strength was successfully produced using oil palm shell as coarse lightweight aggregate.
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