Overview
- Written by workers active in cementitious building materials
- Includes a concise literature survey
- Aimed at those in industry and academia
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science (BRIEFSMOLECULAR)
Part of the book sub series: Biobased Polymers (BRIEFSBP)
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About this book
This brief describes a novel approach to overcome the disadvantages of hemp fibres in cementitious composites. The authors describe how the new approach includes the combination of thermal pre-treatment of nanoclay (producing calcined nanoclay) and chemical pre-treatment of fibre surfaces to improve the microstructure, mechanical, physical and thermal properties and also durability of hemp fibre reinforced cement composites. In this work, the synthesis of several materials are studied: nanoclay-cement nanocomposite, calcined nanoclay-cement nanocomposite, untreated & treated hemp fabric-reinforced cement composite, hemp fabric-reinforced nanoclay-cement nanocomposite and treated hemp fabric-reinforced nanoclay-cement nanocomposite. The influence of nanoclay on properties of cement paste and hemp fabric-reinforced cement composite is also presented together with the influence of NaOH pre-treatment of fibre surfaces on properties of hemp fabric-reinforced cement composite.
The authors have aimed this brief at those working on environmental-friendly, biodegradable, building materials.Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. Low has published over 250 archival research papers, books and book chapters have been produced and in excess of 1895 citations have been received. H-index is 23 with an average over 7 citations per paper.
Dr. Faiz Uddin Ahmed Shaikh is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Curtin University, Australia.
Mr. Ahmad Hakamy is a PhD Student in the Department of Applied Physics, Curtin University, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: High Performance Natural Fiber-Nanoclay Reinforced Cement Nanocomposites
Authors: It-Meng Low, Ahmad Hakamy, Faiz Shaikh
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56588-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56587-3Published: 02 May 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56588-0Published: 24 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2191-5407
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5415
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 94
Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations
Topics: Polymer Sciences, Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials, Building Materials, Nanotechnology