Ahmed Arafa, Nashwa Abdel Elghany, O. Farghal, A. Ahmed
{"title":"A STEP TOWARD DEVELOPING RUBBERIZED CONCRETE TO BE USED IN RC DEEP BEAMS","authors":"Ahmed Arafa, Nashwa Abdel Elghany, O. Farghal, A. Ahmed","doi":"10.21608/sej.2021.92961.1002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/sej.2021.92961.1002","url":null,"abstract":"Using waste tire rubbers as a partial replacement of natural aggregates in conventional concrete materials can overcome many annoying environmental issues. In the literature, the experimental studies clearly revealed that the new concrete with rubber added have much lower compressive and tensile strength than the normal concrete as well as having a much better ductility and impact resistance. The studies mainly focused on small-scale specimens such as cubes, prisms and cylinders. There is a dearth in knowledge about the behavior of large-scale elements, especially such elements with brittle failure such as deep beams. The present study aimed at developing rubberized concrete with a minimal reduction in compressive, flexural and tensile strengths suitable for RC deep beams. Thirteen concrete mixtures were constructed: the first is a control normal concrete mixture and twelve other concrete mixtures with crumb rubber as a partial replacement of coarse aggregates. The parameters included the rubber replacement ratio (5%, 10%, 20%, and 30%), pre-treatment of rubber with NAOH and the use of silica fume powder as a partial replacement of cement. The results were analyzed considering the fresh and hardened concrete properties. It was shown that adding crumb rubber severely affected the concrete properties, but rubber pre-treatment while using silica fume noticeably controlled the reduction. Within the tested range of the rubber replacement ratio, it was found that the optimum ratio is 10% with an affordable 20% reduction in strength. This reduction is believed to be balanced by the safe disposal of waste tyres, the reduction in concrete density associated with the economic design and the concrete ductility.","PeriodicalId":34550,"journal":{"name":"Sohag Engineering Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49656144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Zawrah, Ibrahim Hassab Allahb, M. Mohamed, Moataz H. Ata
{"title":"Effect of zircon and aluminum dross on sinterability and properties Al-matrix composites","authors":"M. Zawrah, Ibrahim Hassab Allahb, M. Mohamed, Moataz H. Ata","doi":"10.21608/sej.2021.72590.1001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/sej.2021.72590.1001","url":null,"abstract":"In the present study, Al-matrix composites reinforced by zircon and aluminum dross were prepared by powder metallurgy after sintering at 500oC. The effect of different percentages of zircon i.e. 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 wt. %, and aluminum dross i.e. 5, 10, 15, and 20 wt. %, on the physical properties (apparent porosity and bulk density), microstructure and microhardness were investigated in details. The apparent porosity and bulk density were determined by water displacement method according to Archimedes rule, while the microstructure was investigated by scanning electron microscope. The Microhardness was measured by Vickers tester. The results showed that the physical properties and microstructure were improved after increasing the amount of added zircon or aluminum dross. Moreover, the hardness of sintered composites was increased with increasing both zircon and aluminum dross. The hardness of zircon containing composites was lower than the hardness of aluminum dross containing composites. The maximum hardness values were obtained for Al/10% zircon (472 MPa) and Al/20% aluminum dross (532 MPa).","PeriodicalId":34550,"journal":{"name":"Sohag Engineering Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42987986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}