Fire behaviour of lightweight concrete units based on corn cob aggregate

Recent research works have concluded that corn cob may have interesting material properties, in particular, lightness, and thermal and sound insulation abilities. In this research work, corn cob is proposed as an alternative sustainable aggregate for lightweight concrete masonry unit (CMU) manufactu...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nuno, Alves (author)
Outros Autores: Piloto, P.A.G. (author), Fonseca, E.M.M. (author), Barreira, Luísa (author), Ferreira, Débora (author), Pinto, Jorge (author)
Formato: conferenceObject
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2016
Assuntos:
Lighweight concrete unit
Corn cob aggregate
Organic material
Mansory
Sustainable construction
Fire
Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10198/13001
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/13001
Descrição
Resumo:Recent research works have concluded that corn cob may have interesting material properties, in particular, lightness, and thermal and sound insulation abilities. In this research work, corn cob is proposed as an alternative sustainable aggregate for lightweight concrete masonry unit (CMU) manufacturing. The corn cob requires to be granulated previously in order to obtain adequate particle size grade. Subsequently, the particles are wrapped in a cement paste with the purpose of reducing their water abortion and adherent capacities. CMU are current applied in the building of partition walls. The main goal of this research work consists on studying the fire behaviour of partition walls built with CMU of processed corn cob granulate (CMU-PCC).

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