Microstructure, texture, and mechanical fracture characterization of three insulating commercial refractories were carried out in order to establish a correlation between these properties. The materials characterized using X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) with Rietveld Le Bail approximation perform phase quantification, mercury intrusion porosimetry, scanning electron microscopy. behavior was stu...

The mechanical behavior of earth concrete for sustainable construction has been studied in this paper. effect flax fibers on the fracture monitored using digital image correlation (DIC) and acoustic emission (AE) techniques to better understand process damage mechanism. Three-point bending tests have conducted prismatic specimens with different percentages (0%, 0.3% 0.6%) lengths (12 mm, 24 50 ...