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High Performance Natural Fiber-Nanoclay Reinforced Cement Nanocomposites

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Authors:
  1. It-Meng Low

    1. Dept. Applied Physics, Curtin University Dept. Applied Physics, Perth, Australia

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  2. Ahmad Hakamy

    1. Perth, Holy See (Vatican City State)

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  3. Faiz Shaikh

    1. Civil Engineering, Curtin University Civil Engineering, Perth, Australia

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  • 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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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • It-Meng Low, Ahmad Hakamy, Faiz Shaikh
    Pages 1-8

  3. Materials and Methodology

    • It-Meng Low, Ahmad Hakamy, Faiz Shaikh
    Pages 9-17

  4. Hemp Fabric Reinforced Organoclay–Cement Nanocomposites: Microstructures, Physical, Mechanical and Thermal Properties

    • It-Meng Low, Ahmad Hakamy, Faiz Shaikh
    Pages 19-36

  5. Nanoclay and Calcined Nanoclay-Cement Matrix: Microstructres, Physical, Mechanical and Thermal Properties

    • It-Meng Low, Ahmad Hakamy, Faiz Shaikh
    Pages 37-54

  6. Chemically-Treated Hemp Fabric and Calcined Nanoclay Reinforced Cement Nanocomposites: Microstructures, Physical, Mechanical and Thermal Properties

    • It-Meng Low, Ahmad Hakamy, Faiz Shaikh
    Pages 55-76

  7. Durability of Naoh-Treated Hemp Fabric and Calcined Nanoclay-Reinforced Cement Nanocomposites

    • It-Meng Low, Ahmad Hakamy, Faiz Shaikh
    Pages 77-88

  8. Summary and Concluding Remarks

    • It-Meng Low, Ahmad Hakamy, Faiz Shaikh
    Pages 89-94
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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

  • Dept. Applied Physics, Curtin University Dept. Applied Physics, Perth, Australia

    It-Meng Low

  • Perth, Holy See (Vatican City State)

    Ahmad Hakamy

  • Civil Engineering, Curtin University Civil Engineering, Perth, Australia

    Faiz Shaikh

About the authors

Prof. It-Meng (Jim) Low is based in the Applied Physics department Curtin University, Australia. He has been involved in the synthesis and characterization of MAX phases, UHTCs, advanced ceramics and composite materials for the past 20 years.
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. 

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