Tag: compressive strength

A new study shows that combining 10 percent lightweight expanded clay aggregate with 0.2 percent polypropylene fibers produces mortar that ...

A new study shows that the fire suppression method used to cool burning concrete dramatically affects how much strength the ...

South African researchers show that adding three percent potassium sulphate to hempcrete nearly doubles its compressive strength and reduces shrinkage ...

A new study shows that concrete made with up to 80 percent less cement develops a denser, stronger interfacial transition ...

New experiments show that rockwool, though non-combustible, can lose over 90 percent of its mechanical strength after high-temperature exposure, while ...

Researchers have developed an automated hidden Markov model method that objectively measures the weak interfacial zone in coal gangue lightweight ...

A new Polymer Bulletin study used Box–Behnken design optimization to identify the precise synthesis conditions for polycarboxylate ether superplasticizers that ...

A systematic review of 139 studies shows that expanded perlite and bio-based residues can produce lightweight, low-carbon cementitious materials that ...

Researchers trained six machine learning models on 2,048 laboratory records and found gradient boosting predicts the compressive strength of cement-free ...

A new study shows iron oxide red pigment can strengthen colored mortar by up to 16 percent while delivering stable, ...