Fresh and rheological characteristics of fiber reinforced concrete——A review

W Wang, A Shen, Z Lyu, Z He, KTQ Nguyen - Construction and Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) has been widely used due to its perfect mechanical
performance, but inclusion of fibers has a decisive influence on the fresh properties …

Utilization of metakaolin on the properties of self-consolidating concrete: A review

Y Asghari, SE Mohammadyan-Yasouj… - Construction and Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) with filling ability and no need for vibration, is
advantageous over regular concrete due to its less construction time, labor cost, and noise …

Mechanical and microstructural properties of self-compacting concrete blended with metakaolin, ground granulated blast-furnace slag and fly ash

S Dadsetan, J Bai - Construction and Building Materials, 2017 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to investigate the mechanical and microstructural properties of self-
compacting concrete (SCC) mixtures containing three supplementary cementitious materials …

Sustainable use of copper slag in self compacting concrete containing supplementary cementitious materials

R Sharma, RA Khan - Journal of cleaner production, 2017 - Elsevier
Copper slag (CS) is an industrial by-product obtained in bulk quantity during matte smelting
and refining process of copper metal. The current research is aimed to investigate the …

[PDF][PDF] Prediction of the compressive strength of self-compacting concrete using surrogate models

PG Asteris, A Ashrafian, M Rezaie-Balf - Comput. Concr, 2019 - researchgate.net
In this paper, surrogate models such as multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS)
and M5P model tree (M5P MT) methods have been investigated in order to propose a new …

Durability characteristics of self-compacting concrete made with copper slag

N Gupta, R Siddique - Construction and Building Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, research was conducted to investigate the performance of copper slag in self-
compacting concrete (SCC) pertaining to fresh and hardened properties. In this study …

Fresh and mechanical characteristics of roselle fibre reinforced self-compacting concrete incorporating fly ash and metakaolin

R Prakash, SN Raman, N Divyah… - … and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
This study covered the fresh and mechanical characteristics of self-compacting concrete
incorporating various fractions of (natural) roselle fibre (1 to 4% with 1% increment by weight …

Application of machine learning techniques for predicting compressive, splitting tensile, and flexural strengths of concrete with metakaolin

HA Shah, Q Yuan, U Akmal, SA Shah, A Salmi… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
The mechanical properties of concrete are the important parameters in a design code. The
amount of laboratory trial batches and experiments required to produce useful design data …

Effects of fly ash, blast furnace slag and metakaolin on mechanical properties and durability of coral sand concrete

S Cheng, Z Shui, T Sun, R Yu, G Zhang, S Ding - Applied Clay Science, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the effects of fly ash (FA), blast furnace slag (BFS) and metakaolin
(MK) on the mechanical properties, drying shrinkage, carbonation and chloride permeability …

Concrete made with hybrid blends of crumb rubber and metakaolin: Optimization using Response Surface Method

O Rezaifar, M Hasanzadeh, M Gholhaki - Construction and building …, 2016 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to optimize the concrete made with crumb rubber (CR) as
waste material in conjunction with metakaolin (MK). The study seeks to use CR as partial …