Structural lightweight aggregate concrete is currently an alternative to normal-weight when thermal insulation properties are required meet the objectives of energy efficiency and sustainability. The accurate evaluation performance thus essential for designing structural elements. This paper aims evaluate behavior concrete, assessed through different tests methods. To this end, a vast experimen...

Foam glass is currently a material produced from waste that cannot be used in the industry. Therefore, it made secondary raw materials obtained by recycling unusable glass. Due to large proportion of closed pores structure, foam achieves excellent thermal insulation properties and limited water absorption. The porous structure relatively regular, predominantly have round character; therefore, e...

Creep and shrinkage are such properties that will occur in concrete when they are under load and exposed to surrounding. Since this property will cause deformation which may decrease the design strength of the concrete, it is necessary to do have more knowledge on this phenomenon. So, we will study the effect of creep on 7 and 14 days of cured time of specimens which sealed or unsealed will be ...

Four different composite mixtures with varying amounts of expanded vermiculite were exposed to high temperatures of 300, 600, 900 and 1100uC for 6 h. Physical and mechanical properties including unit weight, porosity, water absorption, residual compressive strength, residual splitting tensile strength and also ultrasonic pulse velocity were determined after air cooling. Microstructures were inv...